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To: Earlie who wrote (70525)	11/14/1999 2:28:00 PM
From: Skeeter Bug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

earlie, msft is doing great growing earnings... but eps are flat...

To: Earlie who wrote (70525)	11/14/1999 8:15:00 PM
From: Cynic 2005	Respond to of 132070

Regardless of the fact that Parish's analysis is 100% on the mark, MSFT stock price would fall in the too big to fail category and several institutions, the company, the Govt and the Feds will do their best to keep the scam going and will be happy to ignore it.

To: Earlie who wrote (70525)	11/15/1999 8:00:00 AM
From: Tom M	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Hi Earlie, thanks for sharing that background on Parish et al. I've had some unpleasant personal experiences with MSFT myself. I remember talking to other developers at MSFT's Tech Ed in 1993, & we were already feeling like we had to see if the coast was clear before we could share some of our concerns. At the time, I was a partner in a software startup and I became a MSFT Solution Provider in the first year or two the program stared. I was moving our product from a DOS platform over to Windows using Word as a core component. Some MSFT suits at a meeting suggested quite strongly they wanted us to only use MSFT products for everything. They made it quite clear they didn't want to see any presentation materials in anything other than Powerpoint (which we weren't using). We were trying to get a volume deal on Word, and they insisted we wanted one on Office <g>. After becoming a Solution Provider became popular, the requirements started getting more demanding. They now were requiring developers to send a copy of their SOURCE CODE to MSFT. The rest, IMHO, is history...<g> regards, Tom