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To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (59322)	7/2/2001 12:59:59 PM
From: The Duke of URL©	Respond to of 74651

I don't know what it is, but the WSJ sure is fighting the ultimacy of the Court of Appeals decision. It may be that the editors are pissed that a corollary of the Ruling is that reporters can't go into the Judge's chambers anymore, before the trial is over, to get the scoops on the decisions. :)))

To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (59322)	7/2/2001 2:42:35 PM
From: Dave	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

You've got it backwards. Microsoft's expertise at wielding the registry as a bludgeon with which to pummel its competitors into submission is part of the problem. The story says that Microsoft's Windows XP breaks Kodak's software, not that XP doesn't install itself correctly. Microsoft has an ignominious history of attacking competitive threats with the registry. A prime example is QuickTime, whose registry entries were overwritten by certain Windows updates, so that QuickTime movies would be opened by Windows Media Player, which would complain that the files were unreadable or corrupted. Dave

To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (59322)	7/3/2001 1:05:50 PM
From: Rusty Johnson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Microsoft Wages War on Open Source What's behind Microsoft's new attacks on open source? A growing threat to the .Net plans. business2.com "I can't see why they're making these claims, which really aren't true," ... "Compaq, Dell, HP, and IBM are pouring billions of dollars into Linux to make it into an enterprise operating system," Claybrook says. " I think that scares the hell out of Microsoft, because they see this thing as snowballing." Linux could also cut into Microsoft's .NET strategy, through which the company plans to offer a slew of Web-based services. Those services depend on Microsoft technology, which means the company's partners must be running Windows technology on their servers. The more support Linux gathers -- particularly among Microsoft's partners -- the more of a threat it poses to .NET. "In theory, Web services should be independent of underlying systems -- that is, I should be able to receive Web services from any vendor on whatever system I happen to be using," David Cearley, an analyst at Meta Group, said in a report. In the end, though, Microsoft's trash-talking strategy probably won't work, as open source software is becoming an important fact of life for a growing number of companies. "They're trying to instill fear in people," Claybrook says, "but most people understand what's going on." Microsoft ... not true? ... So what's new?