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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (16056)	1/13/1998 3:58:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Let's Hear It For The Marketing Machine zdnet.com A little backgrounder from my favorite ilk sister. And what Microsoft has to say is undeniably interesting. The company currently has about a dozen "enterprise partners" in its corner-ranging from Compaq, Digital and HP on the hardware side, to software and services firms like Vanstar, Ernst & Young, Unisys and Wang on the software and services side. By the end of this year, according to Ian Rogoff, general manager of enterprise partnerships with Microsoft's Enterprise Customer Unit, that number should be closer to 15 to 20. How do you become one of this select group? You usually start out as a Microsoft Solution Provider and then go out on a limb by committing early and often to Microsoft's products du jour, such as NT, Exchange, Site Server, Microsoft Transaction Server, etc. You spend lots of money to certify and train hundreds of your people in Microsoft products and technologies. You study Microsoft-speak-concepts such as the "Digital Nervous System" and "Web Lifestyle." And then you tell other, smaller Microsoft partners and the press why Microsoft beats the pants off IBM, Netscape, Oracle, et. al., when it comes to partnering. And you hope and pray that the new "kinder, gentler" Microsoft will let you know in advance when you've outlived your usefulness, as Alan Buckley said. You just kindly, gently inform Compaq to put the darn icon back where it belongs, or you're dead meat. Cheers, Dan.

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (16056)	1/14/1998 6:13:00 AM
From: Reginald Middleton	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 24154

You forgot this part "Holley asked if Weadock could identify, from a list of more that 220 files, the files Microsoft should instruct OEMs to remove in order to be in compliance with the court's order. Weadock identified "iexplore.exe," the executable file associated with Internet Explorer. "What other files should Microsoft give OEMs the option to remove?" asked Holley. "I don't feel comfortable saying," replied Weadock. "I couldn't draw a box around the files that constitute IE." Holley continued his questioning on what specific files Weadock thinks make up Internet Explorer, to no avail. "I can't cite specific C code or give you a list of files that make up IE. Some are shared," said Weadock. Judge Jackson eventually interjected Holley's questioning, saying "the witness has said several times that he cannot do that [say where IE ends and Windows 95 begins], and I think you have tested the limits."