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To: JC Jaros who wrote (21786)	10/26/1999 3:50:00 PM
From: Prognosticator	Respond to of 64865

My bet is that they are too smart to get sucked into this bottomless hole. SUNW knows how to make money from hardware boxes, but IMO Microsoft will never figure it out. And Microsoft vs. Sony: I know who's consumer device I'd buy. Microsoft have a lot of work to do to ever come close to the warm-and-fuzzy feelings I have about Sony as a consumer electronics vendor. (Note however that I don't have a lot of time for Sony's PC-s, they have caused me a lot of trouble). In August, one Microsoft executive, who requested anonymity, said X-Box may be killed because of the "opportunity to lose hundreds of millions of dollars in the hardware business." Still, Microsoft has continued to pursue the project. P.