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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brian Malloy who wrote (7790)	5/21/1998 4:44:00 PM
From: XiaoYao	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Business/Financial Desk; Section D U.S. v. MICROSOFT: THE MARKET Microsoft Suit's Earliest Result: Surge of Buyers By STEVE LOHR 05/21/98 The New York Times Page 1, Column 5 c. 1998 New York Times Company "The Government's sweeping antitrust suit against the Microsoft Corporation is already having an impact in the marketplace, though an unintended one. Computer stores that are offering promotions allowing shoppers to reserve or buy Microsoft's next-generation operating system, Windows 98, before it goes on sale on June 25 are reporting a surprisingly strong surge of orders. " ... "Inside the nation's big computer retailing companies, executives say, there has been half-joking talk of sending thank-you letters to Joel I. Klein, the Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Justice Department's antitrust division. Irreverent advertising slogans have become a mainstay of office humor: ''This is the product the Government doesn't want you to have.''"