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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (16163)	1/16/1998 12:28:00 PM
From: Pink Minion	Respond to of 24154

Intel to the same degree I scrutinze Microsoft. The innocent Intel monopoly. Looks like they can't count on the bloatware from Redmond for future upgrades Intel Advertising Proposal Is Angering Web Publishers interactive.wsj.com Intel Corp., maker of ultrafast computer chips, is promoting an unusual plan that could slow down the Web. Intel has persuaded major Web sites, including those of CNN and computer publisher Ziff-Davis, to add features that slow down all but the newest and most expensive machines with the latest Intel chips. The sites are being asked to run a notice explaining, "Content on this page benefits from the performance of the Intel Pentium II processor." In other words, if that Web page seems too slow, it's time to buy a new Intel-based personal computer. Intel is backing up the unusual request with a promise to pay bigger subsidies to advertisers who place "Intel Inside" ads on these sites. MS is just not doing their job very well. Intel responds that it is simply trying to encourage the adoption of features and technologies that users will find exciting -- such as three-dimensional "virtual reality" scenes. "I would think that sites would want it that way," says Jami Dover, Intel vice president and director of the company's cooperative marketing program. And more on the influence our great captilistic society has on the teachings of our masses of what is truly good for them. Bill would be proud. Mr. B