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To: Kal who wrote (869)	5/8/1998 3:54:00 AM
From: Mike McFarland	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1600

The most interesting thing to me about this whole anti-trust thing, is that Microsoft still holds all the cards and has not yet tried to play any of them. I'll bet they make a deal in the next couple of days. Maybe they will make a good will gesture, include an extra CD-ROM in Windows98 with a few other browsers on it, and a whole bunch if ISP software on there. Who knows, maybe they even have a jazzed up version of OEM2 they can slap a W98 sticker on and mail out too. MSFT's chart has looked pretty sick since it broke below 90, the put options don't carry hardly any premium for May, hmmm. (I've used this before, but I like it): Microsoft put options, mmm, tasty, Mike eyes them, just like a dog goes back to lap up his own vomit.

To: Kal who wrote (869)	5/8/1998 12:06:00 PM
From: John F. Dowd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1600

Actually your first good point. The question is "is Windows an OS or just a GUI application overlaying DOS?" Where does the OS begin and the application start. Unix is a good example of this blurry line as well. Just as we have small apps called drivers to interface with modems printers disk drives and CD roms so too might the browser client be seen as an interface to the web server. Their are many third party CD ROM ,Disk Drive, Mouse Drivers and Video applications that you can buy that tout themselves as more universal,comprehensive and speedier than the one supplied with the OS and that can be said for other utility apps. as well. Although these are applications there counterparts can be seen under the hood in just about every OS out there. So the browser as an intergral part of the OS is not a stretch - in fact it is part of the evolution of an OS. Apple would have been well served had they pursued Cyberdog with the same diligence and perserverance as MSFT pursued IE. Their are other OS's to choose from. I have chosen Mac OS 8.0 and NSCP Commm (downloaded for free from the get -go). There is Linux and Unix, Novell etc. in the networking area and there are a bundle of browsers that are available as commercial,shareware and freeware. True they don't have the market clout that MSFT has but when MSFT took on DR in the beginning they had zero clout. Let the next newcomer take on MSFT not the government. NSCP screwed up a great idea as did Jobs; please don't ask the government to manipulate commerce to aid guys who had no vision or patience. They wanted their payoff early and they got it while MSFT was willing to wait and penetrate. Regards, JF Dowd