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To: Marc Fortier who wrote (38458)	2/24/2000 2:18:00 AM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Respond to of 74651

Microsoft says it foiled hacker assault on Web site Wednesday February 23, 8:40 pm Eastern Time biz.yahoo.com (some excerpts) SEATTLE, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. (NasdaqNM:MSFT - news) said on Wednesday that hackers had tried to topple its corporate Web site, but the software giant said the assault, the latest in a string of crippling attacks on major internet operations, had done little damage. The Tuesday morning ambush of microsoft.com did not crash the Web site as in other cases, but caused a brief slowdown in initial page viewing of about 3 to 7 percent, Microsoft spokesman Adam Sohn said. That meant some people who clicked on a Web page on the site failed to see it the first time they tried. ``It was very minor, to be honest, so some people saw some slowdowns,' Sohn said. "The Microsoft site was relatively unaffected because it had enormous capacity to deal with legions of visitors who often swarm the network to download the latest software upgrades or test products, Sohn said. ``We have a ton of overhead on this site. We can support terabytes and terabytes of downloads,' Sohn said. Microsoft technicians, in a heightened state of alert after the other recent assaults, had quickly pinpointed which Internet addresses the attacks were coming from and shut off their access to the company's Web site, Sohn said. Sohn said Microsoft's new flagship product, the Windows 2000 operating system that it launched last week to run corporate networks, acted as a sturdy barrier against the unwanted attention. ``The guys running the network swear to me that a year ago we would have been in big trouble, but with Windows 2000, nobody could knock our servers over,' Sohn said. ``Between the robustness of the OS (operating system) and the security features built in, it really helped withstand the attack.' ------ Thank you, hackers, for providing a great source of bragging rights to MS! LOL

To: Marc Fortier who wrote (38458)	2/24/2000 2:31:00 AM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Professor Skeptical About Microsoft Breakup - [Washington] Post Thursday February 24 1:01 AM ET dailynews.yahoo.com (excerpts) WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig, whose views carry weight with the federal judge hearing the Microsoft Corp (NasdaqNM:MSFT - news) antitrust trial, is skeptical about proposals to break up the software giant, the Washington Post reported Thursday. Lessig, who has twice been asked by U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson to help with technical and antitrust issues in Microsoft cases, told the paper that imposing restrictions on Microsoft's business practices should be a sufficient penalty if Jackson rules that the company violated antitrust law. ``I'm skeptical about breakup,' Lessig was quoted as saying. ``It doesn't seem logical to me, but it does to the government.'.. ----- There's more in the full story, but MSFT shares should be helped by this tomorrow.