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To: SIer formerly known as Joe B. who wrote (20608)	6/12/2001 4:43:05 PM
From: shadowman	Respond to of 110652

And..... nytimes.com June 12, 2001 Microsoft Is Ready to Supply a Phone in Every Computer By JOHN MARKOFF Microsoft's new Windows XP operating system for PC's goes further than ever before in commandeering the capabilities of the most widely used desktop tool in America: the telephone. The ability to use the personal computer as an "intelligent" phone has been viewed largely as a curiosity by the computer and telecommunications industries, not to mention by consumers. Internet telephony has mostly not been high quality, and conversations are frequently plagued with static and delays. It has also been difficult for computer telephone callers to find each other without inconvenient and sometimes costly third-party directory services. That is likely to change rapidly as Microsoft's new software prepares to exploit the next generation of the Internet, offering computer-based telephony with better-quality voice than before and with more powerful features than the traditional phone. And that has some high-technology executives wondering whether the telephone companies are going to be the next target in Microsoft's sights.