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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (16804)	1/27/1998 11:49:00 AM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 24154

And the Winner is ... abcnews.com Just so you don't say I never post anything nice about Microsoft, here's Fred Moody's reliable regurgitation of the company line. It all sounds so. . . familiar. It is hardly going out on a limb to predict where all this will wind up several months hence. The very worst that will happen to Microsoft is that it will be ordered to make available to hardware makers a version of Windows 95 that none of them will want: one with an invisible Internet Explorer icon. (Even this development strikes me as highly unlikely-particularly after the three-judge federal court of appeals finishes ruling on Judge Jackson's decrees.) And Joel Klein will stand on the steps of the federal courthouse, braying ad nauseam about how well spent the years and taxpayer dollars were in crushing the Monopolist from Redmond. I guess we'll just have to ask John Donahue, employee in good standing of the military-industrial complex, where a better place to waste taxpayer's dollars would be. Gotta guard against that commie comeback, unless it's commies that Bill can make money off of, if he can ever get them to pay for his software. Microsoft, meanwhile, will quietly go back about its business of taking over the operating system-cum-browser market. Hey, I thought it was already a done deal. And how could there possibly be any problem with that. Taking over markets has nothing to do with monopoly or antitrust. Another one of those duality of man things, or maybe just the TRUTH. And those of us in the press will have to look elsewhere (the White House, perhaps?) for lurid entertainment. To each his own, I guess. Coming from a state whose governor is a good rock-ribbed Republican preacher of family values, who hasn't lived with his wife for 20-odd years or so, and is pretty well known to still like the ladies, that stuff is boring to me. The press won't touch it here, either. They just don't understand. Oh, lest we forget: Technology writer Fred Moody is a regular contributor to ABCNEWS.com. He is author of I Sing the Body Electronic: A Year With Microsoft on the Multimedia Frontier. His book on virtual reality will be published this spring by Random House. Get your orders in now! Cheers, Dan.