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To: mozek who wrote (10065)	6/5/1998 2:20:00 PM
From: Kal	Respond to of 64865

The hard facts are the inescapable MSFT internal documents. Those documents speak volumes. Management (Gates, Ballmer(sp) et al) seem to be interested mostly into domination regardless. I don't know about its employees, but management is definitely getting away with murder, IMO. One of the reasons we seem to do this slowly at times is not that we're actually working slowly, but that we try to avoid preannouncing major features (not always successful) I think it is quite the opposite. Almost everything MSFT does is preannounced with capital letters. The FUD strategy is a religion, IMO, at MSFT. One of the reasons MSFT seems to do this slowly at times, is becuase of the convoluted integration MSFT desires between its different products and/or the OS. This realization on my part, makes my run away, and not walk, from any MSFT tech solution. I do my best to drive my clients away from MSFT solutions. Some are so entrenched into your products it is a nightmare. They know it, but they're stuck in a rut with your products, and switching away would cost a fortune. and we put a lot of energy into providing our customers with a migration path. Im my work, I've mostly seen migration away from Microsoft. Small shops might find it magically easy to start with MSFT solutions, but soon, if they outgrow the solution, it becomes an expensive nightmare to live with. Thanks.

To: mozek who wrote (10065)	6/5/1998 2:22:00 PM
From: paul	Respond to of 64865

Microsoft can "Say" whatever they want - the reality is often different techweb.com "....Likewise, Microsoft Corp. officials made their pitch to attendees to make Windows NT the platform for IP-telephony applications."People are getting a 99.997 percent reliability with Windows NT now," said Cameron Myhrvold, vice president of the Internet Customer Unit at Microsoft, Redmond, Wash.Unfortunately, just moments after making that declaration, Myhrvold's presentation was interrupted by a series of Windows error messages, including one that seemed to crash the system."