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

To: Road Walker who wrote (3737)	10/22/1997 6:14:00 PM
From: Bearded One	Respond to of 74651

Just read it. Looks like they are going after Windows 98: (from page 22): When, in February 1998, OEMs lose the ability to choose whether or not to include the IE 4.0 CD-ROM in the box with their PCs, that loss of choice will be unaccompanied by any change in the nature of either Windows 95 or IE 4.0. IE 4.0 and Windows 95, which are plainly separate today, will not become any less separate or any more integrated in February 1998 just because of a Microsoft marketing strategy decision to require OEMs to ship an IE 4.0 CD-ROM in the box with their PCs, or later to preinstall IE 4.0. Microsoft's initial distribution of IE 4.0 and Windows 95 physically separate from each other, like its ongoing distribution of IE 3.0 separate from Windows 95, renders hollow any attempt to describe them as an "integrated product" for purposes of the Final Judgment.