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

To: vinod Khurana who wrote (3970)	11/11/1997 12:29:00 PM
From: cheryl williamson	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74651

Vinod, CNBC did a complete tank job on the DOJ complaint against MSFT this morning. Every single "guest expert" was a MSFT plant. No one asked any relevant or probing questions. The whole presentation was orchestrated by MSFT. I'm wondering how I can contact CNBC with my opinion of their reportage. Any ideas?? cheers, cherylw

To: vinod Khurana who wrote (3970)	11/11/1997 3:22:00 PM
From: ericneu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

From infoworld.com "Furthermore, the government explicitly rejected the notion that it was inappropriate for stand-alone technology to be integrated into an operating system, Neukom said. During the 13-month period when the consent decree was open for third-party comment, a graphics publisher complained that Microsoft planned to integrate a graphics package into Windows, and the government explicitly consented to Microsoft's plans to do so, "even though our integrating stand-alone technology might reduce the demand for that stand-alone product," he said. " Could someone with a legal background comment on this? It seems to me that if it's ok to integrate one product, it's ok to integrate another product, regardless of the product in question.