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To: Exacctnt who wrote (59638)	7/11/2001 3:29:08 PM
From: The Duke of URL©	Respond to of 74651

"...however, we wanted to take immediate steps in light of the court's ruling. We are hopeful that we can work with the government parties on the issues that remain after the court's ruling," Ballmer..." Nice move. Takes some pressure off. Shows good positive mental attitude, respect for the court's well reasoned decisions, etc. Cool.

To: Exacctnt who wrote (59638)	7/11/2001 3:30:41 PM
From: t2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Good idea in MSFT doing those volunatary changes in OEM agreements. They have learned the bad lessons of trying to fight at every turn in the courts. The costs of fighting everything in court is not worth it, even if they expect to win. Good PR is the best way to approach this. The competitive landscape has changed significantly in the meantime given the dot.com bubble bursting. The bottom line is that people like Microsoft software. Give the PC makers move freedom; no reason for the restrictions. In addition, it makes the bargaining position of MSFT much stronger because they have basically complied with the court orders unlike the old games of offering a non-working version of Windows95 in response to Jackson's order. Good move by the MSFT mananagement. Change that. Great move by MSFT management!

To: Exacctnt who wrote (59638)	7/11/2001 4:55:27 PM
From: Dave	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Re Greater OEM Flexibility for Windows That's a good start to a good start. But since the browser war is over, it's closing the barn doors after the horses have been stolen. It's like a convicted thief promising never to steal from one particular one of his old victims, after that victim is destitute or dead. Now they need to provide the same flexibility for OEMs to remove other MSFT bundled products, and to preinstall competitors to those bundled products, like QuickTime, Star Office, AOL or Earthlink, and Eudora mail. And the ones who don't bundle the Microsoft products must get a LOWER price than the ones who do, not a HIGHER price, or else everybody is paying for products whether they use them or not, which of course is what got Microsoft in trouble in the first place. Dave