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To: pgerassi who wrote (108511)	4/29/2000 2:43:00 PM
From: Paul Ma	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570958

Windows 2000 is NT5 which is for networks, not homeusers. IE is part of the OS, if you don't like it don't use it. No one forces you to play Minesweeper or Wordpad or whatever. I suppose Nvidia is bundling its GPU into its graphic chip. It's not bundling when you integrate something into the OS. I do not own any Microsoft stock, I have absolutely no pecuniary gains from it! Paul Ma

To: pgerassi who wrote (108511)	5/1/2000 2:06:00 AM
From: Dinesh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1570958

Pete There is a ton of code behind Windows, and rising. You may not like it all but thats not the point. The main thing here is that it costs increasingly more, yet the price of the product hasn't gone up. In effect what you have is an increasingly cheaper product. This is not price gouging. IMHO post breakup it should jack up the price with every release. That IE should be bundled or not, is now a very political question. But, there are a ton of other programs that come with your Windows. I bet there are many that many of us don't use. (Same for Unix. E.g., do you use ffs (1) ?) So why begrudge the bundling of IE ? Because there is a politically connected competitor crying uncle. Is Microsoft a monopoly or a near-monopoly ? It better be, or I would feel very stupid having invested in it. Is it legit ? Depends on who you ask. Nobody asked anybody to buy Windows or else. People who benefit (ISVs) love the homogeny of it; people who compete resent it. Speaking of open source and competition and consumer good, lets see if AMD will have access rights to IA-64. Regards Dinesh