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Strategies & Market Trends : Steve's Channelling Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Don Green who wrote (2168)6/6/2000 5:42:00 PM
From: Bosco  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 30051
 
Hi Don [re: MSFT] - sure, granted that these are subjective

1. productwise. failures to plug security holes [outlook, ie5 etc] Bad publicity. Sure, other platforms like UNIX and sendmail have holes too, so it is unfair to MSFT. But people plug them as they go along.

2. legally, it commited 2 fatal errors. To get off the wrong foot, if memory serves, by trying to get Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson disqualified. IMHO, to have a unsympathetic judge doomed the whole preceeding at the onset. Two, poor preparation.

3. continue the old MSFT way by playing hardball [to put it mildly] with competitors. The idea of lying low cannot be a localized phenomenon, y'know.

4. meeting the Q with the sale of securities.

Just off the top of my head

best, Bosco



To: Don Green who wrote (2168)6/11/2000 2:43:00 PM
From: Bosco  Respond to of 30051
 
<ot>FYI: Hi Don, don't mean to beat a silent horse <g>, but I thought this article was well written and indeed a good likelihood to be a requisite case study for B/law schools for decades to come

chicagotribune.com

best, Bosco