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To: Gerald R. Lampton who wrote (14205)	11/18/1997 4:15:00 AM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

Gates said Microsoft's decision to incorporate browser technology to Windows predates the founding of its chief Internet rival, Netscape Communications, and is simply part of "the march of progress," like adding speech recognition or linguistics capabilities to the operating system. (from nytimes.com Well, maybe you can make the case that MSN and all that other stuff was "browser technology", I suppose. But this account and the Fred Moody story (http://www.abcnews.com/sections/scitech/moody28/index.html) look like rewriting history to me. I'd say Moody was just overstating things, except that he often enough seems to be a press conduit for Microsoft. I am quite agnostic about what the outcome of this particular legal proceeding will be. As you've said before, Microsoft could cave totally and it wouldn't make much difference, just as the original consent decree on per processor licensing of the OS made no effective difference. Any injunction against Windows98 integration is unlikely. With Hatch in on the act, I don't think that antitrust division is in danger of getting its budget zeroed for the momemt, but otherwise I still don't think antitrust is likely to be much of an impedement. But I reserve the right to find the current Gates/Moody line self-serving and disingenuous. Cheers, Dan. P.S. Any thoughts on the Gary Reback interview? (http://www.hotwired.com/synapse/hotseat/97/45/transcript2a.html, which I quoted in 14143) No, I don't think he's objective, of course, just the other side of the story. Who knows what the judge will think?

To: Gerald R. Lampton who wrote (14205)	11/18/1997 8:16:00 AM
From: Harvey Allen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Jan 13, 1995 Microsoft Signs Licensing Agreement with Spyglass. spyglass.com >>And, let's not forget about MSN, which DOJ was investigating throughout this timeframe. MSN is not the internet, I know, but they are certainly related (for starters, there is an eeiry similarity between bundling of IE and Windows and the MSN "desktop icon" controversy<< The reason that MSN sailed thru was that most knowledgeable people were laughing at it as a late entry into a dying proprietary on-line industry. "Bill's folly". Harvey