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To: Dermot Burke who wrote (20745)	8/25/1998 1:27:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

Dermot, you can check out the video at cnnfn.com (select August 21, part 1, at about 8 minutes into the show). Pretty light on specifics, sounds like "Dos isn't done till Lotus won't run" in the early Windows 3.0 days, circa 1991. No actual competing products cited. Email between David Cole, Ballmer, and Brad Silverman, dismissed as usual by Microsoft as "junior executives". Presumably, junior to Bill and the mysterious, secret #2, J. Allard. I'd guess we might have to wait for the trial to hear more about this. Cheers, Dan.

To: Dermot Burke who wrote (20745)	8/25/1998 6:02:00 PM
From: Charles Hughes	Respond to of 24154

Jason Pontin, editor of the Red Herring, disclosed that they were in posession of Microsoft documents leaked from the Justice Department which confirmed that high level conversations had taken place at Microsoft in an effort to deliberately disable competitors applications running under Windows. The news was so shocking, that the normally eloquent Jason Pontin had to explain it three different times to CNNfn hosts Steve Young and Bruce Francis. >>> Well, I must say I'm shocked too, after all the millions of accusations and logical proofs and reverse-engineering that seemed to prove they were disabling competitors products, that MSFT would have these documents laying around like that. :-) I guess it just goes to show that if you had a really good backup system in your OS you would know what there were copies of and that could be a really handy thing, from more than one point of view. Olliver North ran into this little problem also. Too bad MSFT backup systems suck like they do, eh. Poetic justice indeed. Cheers, Chaz P.S. I'm pissed off because an old C++ Internet app I had working 2 years ago now breaks with their new compiler, because they took out resource file features I was using and replaced them with the crap known as Active-X. This is going to take some rewriting to get out of. A great way to make sure your competitors products (in this case it is) are incapable of easy upgrading when a new OS version or compiler version comes out. Lets you disable other products in wholesale quantities, without even thinking about it. Thanks to Valhalla the same programmer still works here. And also, thanks Redmond, for the challenge. And the reminder not to use nonstandard features of MSFT language compilers.