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

To: Hal Rubel who wrote (10302)	8/26/1998 1:01:00 PM
From: Exacctnt	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74651

Hal, << don't you just hate it! It seems that Bill Clinton and Bill Gates are viewed as controversial. You'd think they were bad for America or something!>> One Bill is and one isn't. I commented once before on this subject. Which Bill would you pick as a role model for your children? <vbg> Regards, Bob

To: Hal Rubel who wrote (10302)	8/26/1998 5:38:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 74651

U.S. Investigating Microsoft's Role in Intel Decisions nytimes.com Just thought I'd post the original story, the Times has been a favorite source of mine for a while. They got good reporting as well as good writing. Of course, Reggie will inform you that they're just trying to sell advertising. He's probably got gigobytes of data to prove that too. Quotes for amusement only. "Business partners like Intel and Microsoft occasionally have minor disputes, and the fact that the Justice Department and the states are apparently trying to shoehorn this into their case at the last minute shows how desperate they are," said Charles Rule, a partner at Covington & Burling and a former senior Justice Department official who is an adviser to Microsoft. That would be Charles "Rick" Rule, sometime contributor to Slate and head of antitrust (non)enforcement in the Reagan administration. At least everybody is crediting him properly these days. Then, there's this amusing dialogue from Fortune, that sheds some light on the kind of "innovation" Bill prefers. The Intel-Microsoft confrontation over NSP in 1995 was closely followed in the industry. A year later, in lengthy dialogue between Grove and Gates, published in Fortune magazine as "A Conversation with the Lords of Wintel," the two men discussed the matter. Gates said, "Intel deserves a lot of credit for stepping back." Grove replied, "We didn't have much of a choice. We basically caved." Gates objected to that characterization, but Grove stuck to his line. "We caved," the Intel chairman said. "Introducing a Windows-based software initiative that Microsoft doesn't support . . . well, life is too short for that." Who you gonna believe? Bill who gave the cable guys the mixed message, "Don't be paranoid" / "WinCE will be just like Windows", or Andy Grove, "Only the paranoid survive"? Bill can surpress innovation at mighty Intel, but he's good for it everyone else, right? All part of the duality of man, I guess. Cheers, Dan.