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To: Zen Trader who wrote (32)	12/11/1997 7:28:00 PM
From: Jim Lamb	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 96

U.S. Judge bars Microsoft link on software, browser WASHINGTON, Dec 11 (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge Thursday ruled that Microsoft Corp. [Nasdaq:MSFT - news] must license its dominant Windows 95 operating software to computer makers without requiring them to take its Internet Web browswer. U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson acted swiftly, as the U.S. Justice Department had requested. He said Microsoft ''shall cease and desist ... from the practice of licensing the use of any Microsoft personal computer operating system software (including Windows 95 or any successor version thereof), on the condition, express or implied, that the licensee also license and pre-install any Microsoft Internet browser software ... pending further order of (the) court.'' The judge for the time being denied the Justice Department request to hold the software giant in contempt for violating a 1995 antitrust agreement, and he ordered that a special judicial officer be appointed to consider issues of facts and law in the

To: Zen Trader who wrote (32)	12/11/1997 8:22:00 PM
From: Mike McFarland	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 96

It's fun to have guessed right...if I could go back in time and buy 100 puts instead of the five 140's I have that would be pretty neat. I expect there will be a lot of stuffed shirts proclaiming how unimortant the ruling is...but I'll guess that the Justice department will prevail on the contempt issue too...and MSFT will probably have to cough up a couple 100M...so we might see that get built into the price of the stock by the May31 deadline for the report. Actually, I dont think the ruling precludes the possibility that the Judge might find MSFT in contempt sooner...he just forstalled that today. I obviously am not a lawyer...but that is how I interpreted the assistant attn generals comments on Digital Jam. I'll probably cash out after MSFT drops ten bucks a share. With the five grand I hope to make I'll buy a cool PII and run Corel Wordperfect...which is bundled with Netscape 3.0...I'll be sure to buy it from a company that sells it configured that way...which a lot of the better-value machine builders already do. Oh, by the way, why does Netscape 3 run so much faster than IE? I get a lot more death spirals using IE than Netsape, very odd. P.S I am not crazy...buying a new PC instead of going to the tropics--I just got back from Tahiti. My current PC is a 486...14" monitor, and as you can see by the extra spaces, unless I hit the backspace key alot, even the keyboard is crapping out. (I willl keep my Kensigton trackball however) ...anybody want to buy a 486? ha ha