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To: Ibexx who wrote (8330)	11/13/1999 3:55:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29987

totaltele.com I hadn't seen that. It's well worth a read. It's always good to have some idea of what an elephant in the village plans to do. <Gates targets telecoms as the next big market By David Molony and Jeremy Scott-Joynt 25 October 1999 Microsoft Corp. is targeting telecoms services as its number one business area for the 21st century, with a special new focus on wireless communications. And the Redmond, Washington-based software maker is prepared to invest in third-generation mobile network operators in order to ensure that mobile data services are rolled out as soon as possible. The new strategy was proclaimed by chief executive Bill Gates at the Telecom 99 exhibition in Geneva. "We are completely dependent on forming strong partnerships, particularly with telecoms companies," said Gates. "I'd say [this combination] is very similar to the collaboration that existed between the hardware industry and Microsoft in creating the PC business. Companies like Intel and Compaq were the key partners in these years. Today I would say that our work with telecommunications companies is if anything equally important to that kind of partnership." Microsoft is ready to buy direct stakes in UMTS network operating companies, said Georges Nahon, Paris-based senior director of network solutions. "This is comparable to Gates suddenly realizing the Internet is important [in 1996]," said David Wilkins, senior analyst at Analysys Ltd., of Cambridge, England. "He has undergone a similar conversion [to wireless]." Senior strategic staff at Microsoft say the telecoms sector has moved dead center of the company's sights. For the first time in its 25-year history, the company has re-written its vision statement, to free itself from its dependence on the PC. "The telecoms vertical is already a top three business market, and it's a key target," said Jonathan Usher, telecoms marketing manager at Microsoft. "It is going to be number one [market] in quite a short time." Mobile communications is the likely most lucrative sales area for the different versions of Windows the company has developed. "Wireless data is going to be as integral a part of [companies'] IT strategies as Internet is today," said Henry Harrison, senior consultant at Schema Ltd., London.> Paradigm Shift Happens! Not only that, they have identified IT as a serious competitor with Microsoft for world domination. The USA government already identified Microsoft as a competitor for world domination. Now there is a 3 way race. MSFT/USA/IT. I'm placing my bets on IT to win. It should be quite a battle. Maybe Lwinsky stock price moves lately reflects some quiet interest from companies buying positions in 3G networks as per the Paradigm Shift Happens strategy of MSFT. Maurice OT Department PS: Ibexx, Wasn't the bible written by some scribes hired by King James who copied, edited, translated and otherwise misinterpreted some stuff which other scribes had earlier made up? As you say, homosapiens are only a notch higher than the big Ms and I need only check my hairy arms and prehensile fingers and stupid grin [and other behavioural aspects] to have direct evidence of that. So it seems that a bunch of monkeys DID write the bible. We need only read SI to know that we are really pretty randomly hitting keys too, with only an approximate attachment to any reality. Ipso facto [if that's the right ancient latin saying], the theory is proven that given long enough, a bunch of monkeys sitting at typewriters, typing randomly, will come up with the bible. It's already been done. People here are saying similar things about Barrons. One day, they get it right.