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To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (17898)	3/5/1998 8:14:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 24154

Get your dates straight, Reggie, it was December 7, 1995, a day that will live in infamy, the day Microsoft declared war on the internet, the day the internal "embrace and demolish" slogan became the external "embrace and extend", the day Bill became a commie. In case anybody was wondering about the declaration of war, we have this compelling testimony on body language as collaboration: At one point, Bill was making a fairly factual, accepted statement - "The rapid introduction of the Internet is the most exciting example of innovation in the march of progress." But as he was saying this very positive statement, his head was shaking "no," and he made this tight insincere smile. This is clearly a contradiction between mind and body. (from nypost.com But who knows, maybe it's just part of the duality of man, the Jungian thing. Cheers, Dan.

To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (17898)	3/5/1998 10:38:00 PM
From: Keith Hankin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

What do you think MSFT did in December of 96? Massive restructuring, dilution of major revenue streams (all of the free internet software and developer programs), massive reallocation of human resources. The difference is MSFT executed properly by investing in the future. You are incorrect in saying MSFT never had to do it, they did it jsut recently. The difference is that they succeeded. The restructuring resulted in dilution of potentially major revenue streams. The internet software was a new product category that did not even exist a couple of years earlier. And they were able to finance this with the huge revenue stream generated by their OSes. Apple, OTOH, would have to have sacrificed much of their largest single source of income. Quite a difference there.