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

To: Ibexx who wrote (8610)	6/23/1998 11:41:00 PM
From: Alan Buckley	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

[Rob Enderle said the ruling vindicates Microsoft's ''pragmatic legal approach. They appear to have a good sense of what the court wants to see,'' he said.] He's right, but the full ruling contains some interesting comments on that. The judge says that neither MSFT nor the DOJ presented a workable interpretation of the Consent Decree's "integration" language. He said it was clearly the intent of the parties to disallow an MS-DOS/Win3.1 tying while allowing the Win95 integration, and the correct interpretation must produce that result. He said the DOJ's interpretation was flawed because it would not have allowed the creation of Win95, but MSFTs interpretation was also flawed because it would not have prohibited the tying of MSDOS/Win3.11. But that just means they were overboard when they said could bundle a "ham sandwich" with Windows if they wanted. They scored big on everything else.