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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Flair who wrote (4999)	2/5/1998 1:48:00 PM
From: daniel brodan	Respond to of 74651

So MSFT is splitting the day of FEB expiration???? 2/20/98 -- Maybe a lot of possibilities here??? Anyway it's finally nice to see MSFT break out of its shell... Anybody know if RNWK (real networks) is partially owned by GATES??? I think this company is one of the greatest Internet Growth Potentials and is just starting to real have the revenue to back it up...........

To: Flair who wrote (4999)	2/5/1998 2:00:00 PM
From: Ibexx	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Flair and thread, This just in: _____ Thursday February 5, 1:10 pm Eastern Time Siemens to sign strategic pact with Micosoft MUNICH, Germany, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Siemens AG (OTC BB:SMAWY - news; SIEG.F) confirmed on Thursday it planned to work with Microsoft Corp (MSFT - news) to develop a wide variety of industrial and household devices based on the Windows CE operating system. Siemens planned to use Windows CE -- a compact version of the Windows systems for personal computers -- as the interface for new generations of mobile phones, automobile controls, digital TV sets and cash registers, a spokesman said. ''It will certainly be a strategic relationship,'' Siemens spokesman Hartmut Runge told Reuters. ''The products will be developed jointly. A lot of products outside of the office systems area will integrate Windows CE as a standard.'' Runge declined to elaborate on any financial aspects of the deal. Chief executives Bill Gates of Microsoft and Siemens' Heinrich von Pierer would meet on Friday and the two companies planned to sign a letter of intent, he said. The partnership marks a significant breakthrough for Microsoft, which originally developed Windows CE for handheld computers and hoped to push the familiar Windows point-and-click scheme into other types of products. Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG, the German company's computer unit, told journalists in Athens that the products could include a combination TV-PC that can serve as a picture phone, Internet computer, or digital set-top box. The product would be used in a pilot project with Deutsche Telekom AG [NYSE:DT - news]. Handheld computers based on Windows CE have been available in the United States for more than a year, and Compaq Computer Corp [NYSE:CPQ - news], Hewlett-Packard Co [NYSE:HWP - news] and several other companies plan to unveil European versions at the CeBIT computer fair in March. But Microsoft has had less success outside the computer industry, despite Gates' efforts to promote Windows as a ubiquitous interface. Ibexx