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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (18369)	4/8/1998 12:24:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

Microsoft to buy Firefly www5.zdnet.com I'm not really up on this agent stuff, another one of these things to take you where somebody else wants you to go. I just note this one for contrast with an oldie from last summer: The Buzz About Firefly search.nytimes.com Which contains one of those quotes that just makes you love Microsoft all the more: Feeding the lion" is how Max Metral describes his visits to Microsoft headquarters. Metral is the 24-year-old chief of technology at Firefly Network, a small Internet software company based in Cambridge, Mass. One evening in February, he and his partners flew to Seattle to spend the next day showing off Firefly's software, which has aroused a good deal of investor interest. One of the Microsoft engineers, who have elevated the techno-put-down to high art, glanced at Firefly's software and concluded, "We could do that in a week." But they did seem interested in Firefly's business plan, Metral recalls. When the meetings were over and the Firefly team drove back to Sea-Tac International Airport, they had not only fed the lion but also felt the fear. Guess there weren't many people available with a spare week up in Redmond, what with the "bet the company" NT5 release slipping off into wheneverland. So, another promising technology dissappears into Windows World, never to be seen again. Or maybe once Bill owns it, it'll take us where we want to go! Cheers, Dan.

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (18369)	4/9/1998 12:05:00 AM
From: Eugene Goodman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Re: Lessig I am far from being an expert on PCs, I don't know much about how they work and I really don't care to. I use the word processor, the spreadsheet and a couple of design programs. I have gone from IE 2 to 2.1, to 3 and to 4 and never lost my favorites as Lessig did when he added IE to his computer. I did have to look around in a few directories to find it. My guess is that he screwed up and deleted it so that it wasn't available when he went back to Nav. This guy is their expert? Maybe I can be an expert witness. Big bucks, no heavy lifting. Gene