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To: Brian Malloy who wrote (5845)	4/20/1998 8:51:00 AM
From: Brian Malloy	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74651

A little morning MSFT news from the Washinington Post to get everyone pumped up for the week. It should be a good one. I'm looking for about $97 and maybe a little more by Thursday. Gates to Unveil Windows 98, Awaits Legal Showdown washingtonpost.com NEWS ANALYSIS A Q&A With Bill Gates The following is the full transcript of an e-mail interview conducted by Post reporter Elizabeth Corcoran with Microsoft CEO Bill Gates: [Note: The questions and responses that appear have been left in their unedited form.] washingtonpost.com

To: Brian Malloy who wrote (5845)	4/20/1998 11:45:00 PM
From: Moominoid	Respond to of 74651

You are correct, those are crazy numbers. The previous poster should be careful with these "log extrapolations". One of the underlying tenets of Regression be it logistic or some other form is that making interpretations outside of known data points is shall we say less than reliable and may bear no resemblance to future reality. Basically the confidence intervals increasingly diverge out from the projected regression line as the forecast period extends.Nothing grows exponentially forever. I heard this morning on the radio here in Aus Windows 98 unveiling was a bit of a debacle/fiasco. David