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To: Thunder who wrote (52325)	10/27/2000 3:16:44 PM
From: The Duke of URL©	Respond to of 74651

Thunder: You, of course, are absolutely right, and I agree, in this post, and I believe you have made the point before in a previous post. the duty to disclose, carries with it the delivery of the message. Through ANY and all reasonable means, not just selected avenues. Duke

To: Thunder who wrote (52325)	10/27/2000 4:12:08 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Microsoft CEO sees Internet future in integration (UPDATE: Updates with details, quotes, background) By Jan Strupczewski STOCKHOLM, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp's (NasdaqNM:MSFT - news) Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said on Friday the future of the Internet was in making the Net's various websites, services and hardware devices work seamlessly together. Ballmer, on a world tour to promote Microsoft's MNS portal, which is part of its broad .NET strategy for the easy exchange of data across software services, was speaking at an Internet seminar at Saltsjobaden near Stockholm. He said nothing about Microsoft's announcement earlier on Friday that hackers broke into its computers and that it is investigating if they gained access to the source code of Microsoft's key products like Windows ME and Windows 2000. Ballmer was due to speak later at another event in Stockholm and could not be reached for comment. ``When I teach my handheld device to recognise voice commands I should be teaching my PC to recognise voice command and my mobile phone to recognise voice commands. It should be one set of learning,'' he said, adding he expected sophisticated voice recognition software in some three years. ``If I create my own mytravel.com website, it should be able to help me book my travel, notify my sister via e-mail or pager, that I am coming, then remind her I am coming, tell the post office to hold my mail for two weeks and finally tell the milkman, who by now is groceries.com, not to come.'' He said Microsoft was particularly interested in the development of mobile access to the Internet via mobile phones and other devices in which it closely cooperated in a joint company with Sweden's telecoms equipment Ericsson . The Ericsson Microsoft Mobile Venture is focusing on support of mobile e-mail and personal information management tools in existing mobile networks, but the effects of the cooperation are still two years away, Microsoft officials said in September. THIRD GENERATION INTERNET Ballmer said the Internet was now in what he called ``a third generation'' in which companies are focused on making money on the Web and reshaping the way they work to integrate the possibilities offered by the Internet. ``It's about where does the Internet fit... People are asking what can the Internet do for me, not what I can do for the Internet,'' he told the seminar. He said the third generation on the Internet would last longer than the second generation, which focused mainly on attracting customers and sophistication on Websites. ``Third generation is about long term investment... There won't be any instantaneous successes, it's more about how to build businesses over the Internet in the long term,'' he said. Commenting on the recent price swings of technology stocks globally Ballmer said the industry would welcome more stability, but said the price fluctuations were not a true reflection of what was happening in the companies themselves. ``The market is very much a fashion thing,'' he said. ``It's like women's shoes. Some things get hot and it's hard to tell why, then they go away and it's hard to tell why, and they are, at the end of the day, still shoes and serve a good purpose.''