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To: David R. Schaller who wrote (77798)	2/9/2000 1:04:00 PM
From: Night Writer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 97611

Microsoft to provide information sought by EU BRUSSELS, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp <MSFT.O> said it looked forward to providing information requested by the European Union as part of a probe into whether the U.S. software giant's new operating system breaks EU competition law. "We received the request for information. They have asked us to provide the information by the beginning of March and we look forward to doing that," John Frank, Microsoft's European director of law and corporate affairs, told Reuters from Paris. "We have shared a wide variety of technical information about Windows 2000 broadly with software developers, customers and competitors," he said. MORE * end of story *

To: David R. Schaller who wrote (77798)	2/9/2000 1:15:00 PM
From: Night Writer	Respond to of 97611

E Trade Hacked and Microsoft having some Win 2000 problems in Europe. Not a good day for tech stocks. NW ETrade, ZDNet sites hit by hackers New York--Feb 9--Internet hackers struck again, adding on-line broker ETrade Group Inc.'s (EGRP) and technology provider ZDNet to the list of companies whose Web sites have been disabled by a flood of data. ETrade said its site was affected for about one hour Wednesday morning. ZDNet spokeswoman Martha Papalia said the ZDNet site was down for about two and a half ho urs early Wednesday. The site had returned to normal by midday, she said. The attack on ETrade and ZDNet follow similar attacks on some of the Web's most popular sites in recent days, including Amazon.com (AMZN), Yahoo! (YHOO) and Ebay (EBAY). (Story .5972) European Union to open probe into Microsoft Windows 2000 Brussels--Feb 9--EU Competition Commissioner Mario Monti said the EU has extended its ongoing investigation into the US software giant Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)to include its latest Windows 2000 software. Monti told a press conference that Microsoft has been given four weeks to respond to allegations that some parts of Windows 2000 breach EU anti-trust rules and could impede the growth of e-commerce. (Story .15083)