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To: Clarksterh who wrote (9110)	3/9/1998 2:40:00 PM
From: Greg Jung	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

More off-topics. Re: MSFT Your hypothetical " Thought problem: Suppose Microsoft got a wild hair (not to be confused with a wild Hare) up its b**t and decided it wanted to make X [insert your favorite PC peripheral made by someone other than Microsoft]. They then went to every PC vendor and told them 'You must ship with X or we will not allow you to use our operating system (and you will go out of business because no one else makes a PC operating system).' Is this right? Other than the Sherman Anti-Trust Law they would have violated no laws. What punishment should they recieve given the fact that by the time it hits the courts it is likely to be moot? How many times do they need to do this before it is decided that they are a menace to society? I do not know the answers, but the point is that they are tough questions. " Reminded me of a related pernacious (sp?) MSFT strategy: have you heard of the specially-designed dumbed-down Alpha processor which will only run the NT operating system (as opposed to running VMS/Unix/Linux/whatever)? Lucky for us Intel hasn't done the same sort of prostitution. However such a chip could increase msft leverage such that we will see similar wrinkles in the Intel line low-end processors. Greg