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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (19674)	5/22/1998 11:00:00 PM
From: ed	Respond to of 24154

You should say this way, asking Microsoft to ship one copy of NSCP's product together with each copy of explorer in win98, just like ask your wife to share two men at the same time. Of course, it will end up with the two men fighting with each other all the time under the same platform. Maybe PFE should give us the answer, who should get the first tablet !!!

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (19674)	5/23/1998 12:02:00 AM
From: wonk	Respond to of 24154

Dan: I prefer this quote from The Economist editorial: Many, among them most American consumers and until recently this newspaper, have concluded that this is reason enough to leave well alone. Yet Microsoft's behaviour turns out not to have been so innocent (see article) . The Justice Department's investigations have cast light on manipulation that ill befits a monopolist. And Microsoft's attempt to extend its monopoly in operating systems to browsers, which enable users to roam the Internet, is not merely a question of incorporating a small utility program. If Microsoft has broken the law, it should be punished. If it now poses an unfair threat to new companies, then its power should be curbed. Regarding, Judging from my experience having IE4 laying around NT4, at least 10meg of it ends up being loaded all the time if you do the "desktop update", I don't even want to think about hyperactive desktop. This actually seems to be an endemic problem with MSFT apps. You probably know better than I, but on my machine after boot, 23 megs of physical memory is used. This is on a "clean machine (or the best I can come to it); no taskbars, no schedulers, nothing in the tray, etc. In between apps which have been de-installed and Office 97, I wonder how much is still being installed at boot-up but which is never used. Too bad I can't send a bill for the time to wipe, low level format, and re-install. It would be easier to send a bill for the xtra memory. ww

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (19674)	5/23/1998 6:29:00 AM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Microsoft Case Is Set for Trial in September nytimes.com Avid follower of the O.J. trial for technoweenies that I am, I missed the fact that a trial date was set, not just a hearing on a preliminary injunction. I don't know if I like that, years of entertainment may be curtailed. Microsoft had asked the judge to schedule a hearing on the government's request for a preliminary injunction in January 1999, with a full trial at some later point. Government officials had complained that Microsoft seemed intent on delaying the case so long that Windows 98, the updated operating system that is the target of the lawsuits, would already be in use in tens of millions of offices and homes. Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson suggested that he was sympathetic to the government's argument, particularly after John Warden, a Microsoft lawyer, told him that starting next week, computer manufacturers would begin shipping Windows 98 to customers at a rate of about 2 million copies a month. . . . New York Attorney General Dennis Vacco added, "Microsoft has suffered a crushing legal defeat by now having to defend our request for preliminary relief and our antitrust lawsuits on the very same Sept. 8 trial date." Microsoft, on the other hand, said it took comfort in the fact that the judge had not granted the government's original request for a preliminary injunction hearing next month. That might have interfered with the launch of Windows 98. "Although the Department of Justice and the states asked the court for injunctive relief before June 25, the court determined there was no need to take any action before the consumer release of Windows 98," said William Neukom, senior vice president for law and corporate affairs for Microsoft. "We are looking forward to an exciting Windows 98 launch that delivers this innovative new product to millions of consumers without any cloud of government intervention. We will use the time the court has provided to marshal all the facts and legal arguments, and we will present a very powerful case." A very powerful case, replete with innovative legal strategy to explain how all that email doesn't mean what any normal reader of the English language might take it to mean. A meaning friends and foes of Bill alike would all agree on, outside of this particular context. Neukom will probably show us it was all written in Microsoftese, a language superficially similar to English, where war is peace, ignorance is strength, and Windows is open. Cheers, Dan.