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To: Judd who wrote (334)	11/26/1997 11:46:00 PM
From: paul	Respond to of 1600

"Far fetched analogies don't demonstrate anything." they do if you work for Microsoft.. DOJ is alleging that Microsoft is leveraging its Windows Market Share unfairly to gain browser market read the facts from Microsoft and not from their PR department. from the Nov. 24 issue of Computerworld "Microsoft claims that Internet Explorer is an integrated feature of Windows 95 and the government was well aware of the company's plans when the consent decree was signed. The two products have been integrated since the release of Windows 95, Microsoft officials said. But to show the company officials didn't consider the products integrated as late as last year, the Justice Department pointed to the following Dec. 20 1996 electronic-mail message from Microsoft's senior vice president Jim Allchin to group vice president Paul Maritz: "I don't understand how [Internet Explorer] is going to win. The current path is simply to copy everything that Netscape [communications corp] does packaging and productwise..... My conclusion is that we must leverage Windows more. Treating [Explorer] as just an add-on to Windows which is cross-platform [is] losing our biggest advantage -- Windows market share"