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To: miraje who wrote (16217)	1/17/1998 6:34:00 PM
From: username	Respond to of 24154

*OT* I got some kinda glitch in my e-mail and got this by mistake, I hope somebody over here can get it delivered. thanks in adavace <<<Hi William, It's Uncle Blinky. How is the weather up there in Redmond? It's raining here, but Grace got her brother to fix that leak in the roof last week, so we're quite comfy. William, I know you're busy with that big company there and all, but I wanted to ask you about something. You know I saw in the paper that you have to pay $600,000 in property tax this year on the old homestead. Now, I don't mean to pry, but that seems a little high for property tax, and I was talking to the man down at Mr. G's Discount Computers, (you remember him, his nephew was up in Cambridge when you were there), and he told me he bought some shares in this company called ASCENDING COMMUNICATION. He said they make a lot of good stuff, better than the other people. Well, I don't know about that, but he seemed sincere. Anyhoo, he said that he was pretty sure that the shares would go up pretty soon, (like I said, I don't know about this stuff, but he seemed to know what he was talking about). So here is my idea, and it's OK to say no. If you got about 100,000 shares, and then the stock went up 6 dollars, then you could pay for your property tax. Mr. G. says you ought to do it before next Wednesday, because he thinks the shares might be more expensive next month. If that is true, maybe you should get a few million shares. Grace says you can never have enough of a good thing. (She cracks me up sometimes.) Oh, and William, please don't upset Janet like that. Grace says she's worried. She says Janet has that Tommy Lee person and that Will person and that Will has the noisy cricket, and she's seen Janet when she gets cranky and, well you know how that goes.. Grace says you should cool off, and that you'll know what she is talking about. Incidentally, young Steven hasn't been in touch for a very long time. Did you boys have a falling out? I know it's none of my business, but Grace says he owes you some money. Maybe you should give him a call and try and straighten things out. Just a suggestion. Well, William, that's all for now. You take care and please think about my idea. And don't forget about the noisy cricket. Love, Uncle Blinky>>>

To: miraje who wrote (16217)	1/17/1998 7:45:00 PM
From: Pink Minion	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but the Windows95 on my system hasn't crashed in over a year Truth is in the eye of the Microsofty. It hasn't crashed because you turn it off every day. Even then I don't believe you. Mr. B

To: miraje who wrote (16217)	1/17/1998 8:03:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 24154

JB, yes, a lot of people use Windows. Like it? Who knows. Most PC's, something like 90%, are business purchases. I'd imagine most of that 90% is in businesses big enough to have a computer support staff, though I wouldn't guess a percentage. I doubt very much that any random sample of the general population contains very many people who know what it means to support a bunch of networked PC's, or go through an OS upgrade for a bunch of computers. I doubt many of them have any idea why the studies show TCO of $10k a year or something ridiculous like that, for a single PC. I also doubt if very many people in the general population know about the "standard Microsoft business practices" you guys love so much. Microsoft is widely known as a very successful business; I'd imagine that's mostly what the polls reflect. I believe Microsoft's predecessor as most admired company was AT&T. Anybody calling AT&T brilliant these days? I'd put more stock in that little CIO poll, I think those guys might know a little more about Microsoft than the unwashed masses, but polls are pretty much irrelevant legally. The current PR line is that Microsoft wins in a slam dunk on appeal. Could be, I won't offer any opinion, but that's likely to on a technicality. I don't think the appeals court will rule Microsoft "not a monopoly", though I'm sure Reggie will interpret any Microsoft win there as such for us. The Sherman Act is still on the books, I read somewhere that DOJ hiring Bois had to do more with that one lurking in the background than with the current matter. Cheers, Dan.

To: miraje who wrote (16217)	1/17/1998 8:29:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

James, the B version is supposed to be a system linked sale, but it is freely available here. There is also a non destructive B upgrade in beta that you can get from the warez sites. MSFT might be acting as a monopoly but the product is fine. The corporate philospohy that wishes never to share shelf space is the evil in the empire. With software monopolies like win95 and NT you have a safe revenue source you can use to undermine any area. And we see this now. And that is why MSFT must be broken up. Bill