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To: Paul Bonarski who wrote (5893)	12/2/1997 6:06:00 PM
From: Pierre	Respond to of 64865

I doubt any formal alliance. You'll recall DOJ voided sale of Intuit to MSFT some years back. More likely a case of Intuit having no alternative. They're not big enough to provide electronic banking, so tied in with MSFT to stay in the game. This is one battle Sun seems well equipped to win. They can provide both the hardware and the software (at least the operating system), both of which the banks need to stay competitive in e-commerce. Yet (unlike MSFT) they don't compete with the banks' electronic banking business. I suspect its in areas like this where JAVA will play an increasing role for Sun as a vehicle by which Sun sells more and more servers. I think that's Addi's "new paradigm" at work. As for Quicken - I'm simply staying with version 6 for now. Don't know what I'll do if they stop supporting it - maybe migrate to MECA. Since I don't think the MECA banks really care how much they make on their personal investment software, it would be nice if they offered to tie in with Quicken 6. I'll bet there are lots of Quicken users (like me) who would rather switch banks than use Explorer. Pierre

To: Paul Bonarski who wrote (5893)	12/2/1997 7:46:00 PM
From: Nolan Toone	Respond to of 64865

Oh, Thanks for letting me know. (I just canceled my order for Quicken 98 and told them why :-<)

To: Paul Bonarski who wrote (5893)	12/2/1997 8:37:00 PM
From: Stewart Whitman	Respond to of 64865

The MSFT/Intuit agreement over the browser was mentioned in a PR release a few months ago. I think Intuit wanted more integrated features from Netscape (who they had been working with), and when they couldn't get them, they went to MSFT. Some feature like a button or something that comes with the browser to take people to quicken.com. A real poor decision by Netscape in my opinion. You have to know it really hurt Intuit to have to go to Microsoft with the competition between Money & Quicken. Stew

To: Paul Bonarski who wrote (5893)	12/2/1997 9:52:00 PM
From: DownSouth	Respond to of 64865

>The thing that gets me are the contiuous messages that pop up asking you if you want to make Explorer your default browser No kidding! I have been using quicken since 1991 and can't imagine my financial life without it. But when I installed Quicken 98 a few weeks ago, I found myself cursing Quicken for selling out to MSFT on the browser. I almost wrote a note to Janet telling her to put the screws to MSFT and Intuit. Anyone have any idea why Intuit decided to absolutely insist on our using Explorer? (By the way, I discovered that I could reinstall Investor Insight and Quicken 98 would work just fine for downloading prices from II without the pain of a browser based download.)