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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Paul Ma who wrote (108396)	4/29/2000 2:58:00 AM
From: Petz	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1571011

paul_ma, re:<Microsoft built the product, they can do whatever they want with it. Why can't they?> I agree that the OS part of M$ when it is broken up should be able to do whatever it wants with the OS. But I don't think its fair to Activision or Accolade that Microsoft game developers know what's going into DirectX 8.0 before they do. And the inside emails at Microsoft reveal that the primary reason for Active Desktop was to damage Netscape. Read the stuff in the register. Microsoft lied repeatedly under oath. They made a deal with IBM to discount Windows to them if IBM would walk away from OS2. The list goes on and on. It would be totally unfair if Microsoft was just forced to split in two. There should also be a $50B fine and Bill Gates and others should be banned from the industry. Petz