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To: drmorgan who wrote (809)	11/6/1997 3:04:00 AM
From: Dan Guinan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 878

I've said this a hundred times 'if MS say's IE is an integral part of the OS then what is to stop them form saying Office 97 and MS Money are too? Just make them part of the active desktop and we can not only destroy NSCP but Corel Word Perfect office suite, Smart Suite and Quicken financial! MS Office is already a Monopoly, which is why the price for MS Office has been sky-rocketing. Compare the inflation adjusted price for MS Word today with what it was when Word Perfect was king. Illuminating! But, if Perfect Office managed to somehow gain 90% market share, MS would probably bundle it in with the OS (If they didn't go under - 50% of their revenue is drawn from MS Office). You can bet that MS would have bundled a home finance package with Windows if the Intuit fiasco didn't occur. MS Money was already being handed out for free with almost everything MS sold prior to the attempted buy-out of Intuit. After that failed buy-out, the eyes of the Justice Department were too focused on that Market Segment for even Big Bully to play hard-ball. Microsoft barely made it out of that alive - I need to vent: Judge Sporkin, who was charged with investigating MS at the time, started crying "foul" due to all of the terribly dirty goings on he was finding out about from outside and within Microsoft. He was attempting to open up a full scale investigation on to the business practices of Microsoft (ala AT&T) when he was blind-sided. He was pulled off of the case, another judge took his place, immediately dropped all charges against Microsoft and then resigned. Big Bully pulled in some real favors to make that happen. Can he do it again? It will be a disgrace to the country if so. We should all be humiliated by this. -Dan

To: drmorgan who wrote (809)	11/6/1997 3:49:00 AM
From: Normandi	Respond to of 878

Derek.. We agree government is not the place that issues like the MS suit should be settled, and regardless of the outcome I am sure in the long haul the better system, product shall prevail. And it may not be MS. If memory serves, last election one of the major battle slogans was " we will enact legislationÿ for TERM Limits". Well, how are they doing now that they have control of the House and the Senate? The present access to the electronic media, knowledge, andÿ oddly enough discussion like this are just the place many of us shall make up our minds to which products to buy and more importantly, recommend others to buy. I also agree to the basis all companies that have unlawfully conducted business practices should be sanctioned, fined and prevented from continuing same. I am a native of SLC, UT, left the valley for the U.S. Army. I was having some fun with a play on words, the comment was not directed to any peoples of the State.ÿ When I was much younger, we would venture out to the Great Salt Lake to swim...huh.. float!, but sometimes the floating sewage made a second decision a better one. Good investing Chow Norm