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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (16837)	1/28/1998 12:41:00 AM
From: drmorgan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

And finally, the eternal preemptive strike on speech recognition. There are products out there, but Microsoft's going to build it into the OS, so everybody's wasting their time and money on the problem. Bill's been saying this for years, it must be the TRUTH! Ah, but IBM beat them to it! OS/2 has speech recognition built in but I never really played with it much. It did work though but reeally only after you trained it to your voice. My kid got pretty good with it and if I ever have a disability and can't type I would surely use it. Of course nobody took notice of IBM putting it into the OS and of course those reasons are obvious. Did you hear the one about the dyslexic, agnostic insomniac? Sheesh. ROFLOL! Derek

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (16837)	1/28/1998 12:06:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Gates Goes on the Offensive During Silicon Valley Visit nytimes.com Times tech/net beat guy John Markoff weighs in. Bill's blue suede shoes didn't make the trip. A diplomatic mission it wasn't. I will be brief here, it's a long article and people should make of it what they will "I'm not a philosopher of the judiciary," he said when questioned about whether his strategy had irritated the judge. "I'm a software engineer." Or, for John Donahoe, "I'm a doctor, Jim, not a" ... what? So, Bill's just a humble programmer, and all this stuff about the ruthless, cutthroat businessman we know and love is a bunch of hokum. On the legal front, there's another old saw that's relevant, "A guy who defends himself (in legal matters, I guess) has a fool for a client". Like I said after Monday's article about Intel, Microsoft, and antitrust, maybe Bill ought to adapt a little bit more of the Andy Grove- style paranoia and a little less of the immature whiner variety. Let the lawyers defend him, he's got some good ones. Cheers, Dan.