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To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (17949)	3/6/1998 5:29:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Right, Reggie. You want to take the pop quiz too? Microsoft currently hold 90 percent of the operating system market share with its popular Windows system, but Gates refused to characterize that as monopoly, insisting instead that Microsoft products have a very short shelf-life and are constantly threatened by competitors. He said a bright innovator could replace Windows "in a day." McNealy and Jim Barksdale of Netscape Communications, however, said they doubt the Windows operating system could be replaced in their lifetimes because it is so widely used around the world. "That would be about as easy as switching the national language from English to Dutch," McNealy said. Whose candor are you enchanted with here? You think what the Dell salesguys say is somehow less truthful that what Bill put out on Tuesday? There might not be anything written down explicitly, and there might be a little lightening up in days and months to come. Totally unrelated to any ongoing legal scrutiny, of course, like with the ISPs. But I'd say the Dell salesguys are saying something a lot closer to the truth than Bill's lines du jour. Cheers, Dan.