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To: Flair who wrote (4311)	12/16/1997 12:32:00 PM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

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To: Flair who wrote (4311)	12/16/1997 1:46:00 PM
From: Flair	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

John & all, techweb.com ..................................... Q: If OEMs have always had a choice about which browser to load on their PCs, why did the Justice Department make such a big deal about your alleged threat to take away Compaq's license for Windows 95 if they didn't put IE on their systems and instead put Netscape Navigator on their systems? A: I think you are referring to a declaration that the government filed with its petition back in October from Compaq about the communication between Compaq and Microsoft. And the upshot of all that was never that Microsoft threaten Compaq or any other OEM on the subject of booting other competing Internet browsing technology on their systems. The question was whether Compaq could remove Internet Explorer technology from the then versions of Windows 95. And for all the reasons we have stated in these proceedings and elsewhere, we license our product as a fully integrated product in tact with the understanding that the OEM if it wants to install the product must install all the product for all the obvious reasons of compatibility and product integrity that underlie that kind of a licensing approach. That is absolutely standard operating procedure in this industry. There is nothing controversial about Microsoft requiring an OEM to ship a full product. We have never threatened any OEM on the grounds of their including any technology in addition to our operating system. .................................... I remembered that this question was asked by a reporter from WSJ.