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To: brad greene who wrote (4794)	11/5/1997 9:08:00 AM
From: Hockeyfan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 26039

Re: Microsoft Headline in the WSJ today says," Microsoft is poised to dominate electronic commerce through its lock on PC operating software, witnesses told the Senate Judiciary Committee." (Article on page B6) Windows98 will incorporate Internet Explorer. (I would not want to be Netscape about now.) By controlling the internet browser, Microsoft will dictate the biometric security protocol for identity authentication used for internet commerce transactions. Also, WindowsNTis likely to replace Novell as the operating system for LANs and WANS. IMO SACMAN is hitching its wagon to the wrong mule with Novell. Microsoft will likely accomodate the use of many biometric scanners, including Identix's. Remember Randy said that selling hardware is not where it is at. The gazillion dollar question is which biometric algorithm will Microsoft adopt as their standard? Hopefully Microsoft will chose the only commercially available pattern recognition algorithm with demonstrated success through a large, installed base - Identix (Fingerscan). People are already accusing Micrpsoft of being big brother. Microsoft would never use a minutiae-based algorithm that would allow reconstruction of the fingerprint or the perception by the user that reconstruction could be done. The larger IDX gets, the more they increase their odds at becoming the standard. Hopefully Microsoft repeats what they did with Citrix and licenses the technology rather than trying to recreate the wheel. They need to spend more time on Windows98 and less time driving small competitors out of business.