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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (23536)	11/11/1999 2:15:00 PM
From: Bearded One	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

NT is covered by the monopoly ruling. I just want to point that out because Microsoft is spinning how "Windows 2000 isn't even mentioned in the Findings." Of course, it was ruled that Microsoft has monopoly power. That is, the company itself, not any one of its products. From the findings of fact: 4. Cloning the 32-Bit Windows APIs 52. Theoretically, the developer of a non-Microsoft, Intel-compatible PC operating system could circumvent the applications barrier to entry by cloning the APIs exposed by the 32 bit versions of Windows (Windows 9x and Windows NT).. IBM discovered this to its dismay in the mid¡ 1990s when it failed, despite a massive investment, to clone a sufficiently large part of the 32-bit Windows APIs. In short, attempting to clone the 32-bit Windows APIs is such an expensive, uncertain undertaking that it fails to present a practical option for a would be competitor to Windows.