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To: TLindt who wrote (1455)	1/31/1998 6:37:00 PM
From: chirodoc	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8545

<<<<Banks' fear of Microsoft Money and Investor could well lead them to blackball Microsoft from the back office. ......i think that this sums up the banks feeling about msft. msft will play the game hard, but they can't win in every domain--i am hoping the ckfr can keep executing--leaving msft an acceptable but distant second--like msft network.

To: TLindt who wrote (1455)	2/1/1998 10:53:00 AM
From: Brooks Jackson	Respond to of 8545

The "Red Herring" article was a nice find, TLindt. Thanks. Strange that this article, which touted Microsoft's potential as an "integrator," failed entirely to discuss the reasons that billers are signing up with CKFR theee times faster. I also thought it was most revealing in this extremely pro-Microsoft article that an MS official would confess that banks distrust the company: <According to Lewis Levin, vice president of Microsoft's desktop finance division, "We are not going to be a financial institution; customers will always be able to tell the difference between Microsoft and a bank. It beats the heck out of me why the banks trust IBM but not us.">