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To: Cynic 2005 who wrote (23861)	10/22/1997 2:32:00 PM
From: Thomas M.	Respond to of 132070

I found this on the Net recently . . . ========================================== Where do you want to go today? Straight to hell, apparently. The other day I saw another Microsoft commercial on TV: sublime choral music drifts through the background as the unseen user surfs through the Internet and various Microsoft content using Internet Explorer. The commercial closes with the Microsoft slogan "Where do you want to go today?" and a final, furious blast of music. It's a very cool effect. But if you dig a little deeper... As it turns out, the background music is the Dies Irae of Mozart's Requiem Mass. And the words of the final blast of music which accompanies "Where do you want to go today?" are actually "confutatis maledictis, flammis acribus addictis..." In English: "When the damned are confounded, and consigned to sharp flames..."; which describes exactly where I want to go today. Unfortunately, while Explorer will take you to hell for free, the upgrade to purgatory is pretty steep. =========================================== Tom

To: Cynic 2005 who wrote (23861)	10/22/1997 7:33:00 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 132070

Mohan, Is Justice now going to define what an operating system is? or declare that "browser" is permanently a separate entity from "operating system" because it happened to be one in the years 1995-1997? Under the 1995 consent decree, Microsoft has the right to develop "integrated products". Windows will continue to contain whatever Microsoft thinks good to put in it, as many a third-party add-on company has discovered before now. This is no different.