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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: David Howe who wrote (67463)	4/16/2002 5:35:00 PM
From: Charles Tutt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Are you then saying that he did NOT say the proposed remedies would fragment Windows? Which witness is going to say that? BTW, this is a REMEDY hearing. I'm not convinced it is very relevant that there is some disruption to the beneficiaries of the illegality. I suspect some of ATT's suppliers had trouble dealing with the breakup, too. JMHO. Charles Tutt (SM)

To: David Howe who wrote (67463)	4/16/2002 5:38:52 PM
From: jonkai	Respond to of 74651

1. He said he didn't read the proposed remedy. 2. He said that a fragmented Windows would set the computer industry back 20 years. here is his quote..... and i quote directly..... do you have no shame? WASHINGTON--Microsoft will call Advanced Micro Devices CEO Jerry Sanders as its first witness Tuesday as the company's antitrust remedy hearing begins its second phase. Sanders, in written testimony submitted before his scheduled appearance, said that the litigating states' proposed remedy of requiring Microsoft to sell a stripped-down version of Windows "would have harmful effects on AMD, the computer industry as whole, the U.S. economy and consumers worldwide." Sanders said Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates asked him to testify and that he agreed out of concern over the remedy proposal. He faulted the remedy provision of the litigating states, which would compel Microsoft to release a second version of Windows without so-called middleware, such as browsing and media playback technologies. The proposal , he argued, could lead to the fragmentation of Windows and "would set the computer industry back almost 20 years."