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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (20881)	9/9/1998 10:52:00 AM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 24154

Gates sees antitrust victory news.com In which Bill proves himself once more an expert in revisionist history. Addressing a conference on the Internet and the Media, Gates said that previous antitrust cases, particularly against International Business Machines, provided Microsoft with strong legal ammunition. "They [IBM] won all of those law suits. Some of those precedents are fantastic for us because they say that even a successful company can be innovative," Gates said. Right, Bill. The big antitrust lawsuit against IBM collapsed when Rick Rule's predecessor under Reagan pulled the plug. They didn't win in court, and they lost some big ones previous to that. Doesn't much matter, the IBMers were all dolts in the face of Brilliant Bill. Microsoft must be free to inoculate, with the much dreaded DNA retrovirus. Outlining his vision of a future dominated by Internet technology, Gates said the time would come when the only difference between a television and a computer would be the "distance that you sit from it." Eventually, what he termed the "Web lifestyle" will turn the Internet into an integral part of people's lives, like a telephone or the television of today. Compare and contrast: The Herring: Are we going to be running Windows on our TV sets? Gates: No. The user interface on your TV will have to be very simple to use. I don't know exactly what it's going to look like, but I can guarantee you that it is not going to look like a computer. It won't be Windows on your television. It will take a new genre of software. This will not be a canned package, either. The technology and intelligence in the operating system will learn what you like and present options to you that take into consideration your preferences. (from redherring.com ) Bill's guarantees are worth about as much as that Windows warranty that got voided if you installed DR-DOS. Another bit of history in need of rewriting. The neologistics department will get on it any day now. That last article is a bit old, admittedly, but the current revisionist history line has Bill on top of the internet already by then. He was just putting up a smokescreen. Cheers, Dan.