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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (17597)	2/23/1998 2:44:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 24154

While Olympians inspire, Redmondians conspire zdnet.com Ol' Spencer notice the Simpsons too, and has his own ironic followup. Moving on to the Life Imitates Cartoon category: The same week that an episode of "The Simpsons" spoofed Bill Gates (the Microsoft CEO's bodyguards bust up the Simpsons' family room after Homer starts up an Internet company), a small Canadian developer called MGI Software was picking up the pieces in its booth after a covert Microsoft operation at the Photo Marketing Association convention in New Orleans. An MGI tattler claims a Microsoft employee was caught dismantling a booth sign depicting MGI's lead over Microsoft in the photo software market (MGI claims to have shipped 10 million copies of PhotoSuite). The employee at first refused to identify himself, but finally fessed up. The tipster didn't say what happened next, but Spencer's guessing they tarred, feathered, photographed, scanned and uploaded the interloper to some remote Web page. It's one of those free speech things, you know. There's only one company that's allowed to make exagerated marketing claims. Speaking of pain, some Outlook 98 beta testers felt a major hurt when they tried to uninstall the beta. In a handful of cases, testers had to rebuild their hard drives after the uninstall routine hosed the entire system. Though it smacks of more Microsoft world-domination conspiracy ("WARNING: Don't remove this application, or the hard drive gets it"), a Redmondian product manager claims it's just a glitch--albeit a nasty one--that Microsoft has since fixed. Or, they were just trying to set up a sting operation for some smart-alec judge the next time around. Or maybe they were just maintaining and enhancing the uniformity and integrity of the Windows95 experience. Cheers, Dan.