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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Les H who wrote (72972)	1/6/2000 9:57:00 AM
From: Les H	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

$ 70 billion overspent on Y2K infoworld.com this might tend to indicate that post-Y2K spending was bundled in with Y2K budgets. no good budget ever goes unspent.

To: Les H who wrote (72972)	1/6/2000 10:09:00 AM
From: gnuman	Respond to of 132070

Shoppers flock to store for MSN purchase credit. Free $400 credit in CA? From the Mercury <It was like Christmas again in January for John Underwood, who clutched three two-way radios worth $407 that he had just bought for $7 from a Best Buy store in Milpitas on Wednesday. The software salesman signed up for three years of Microsoft's MSN Internet access and got $400 off his purchase as part of a promotion by Microsoft, which subsidizes the credit. If Underwood decides to cancel the MSN service before the three years is up, as he said he's considering, he won't have to pay back the $400 to Microsoft. Consumers in every state except California and Oregon must repay the $400 to MSN if they cancel the service. But in California, Microsoft is lending customers a ``purchase credit.' A state law says people can't be forced to purchase anything in connection with taking out a loan. For Underwood, it was ``an awesome deal. I'm taking full advantage of it,' he said. ``It's totally legal, and I really don't like Bill Gates.'> sjmercury.com