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To: John F. Dowd who wrote (11809)	10/26/1998 6:00:00 PM
From: John F. Dowd	Respond to of 74651

To All MSFT Shareholders: More grist for the SoftMill Looks like the NSCP ship needed a little repair before it set out for the rough waters of competition. Warden moved through his questioning more quickly today, the start of the trial's second week, partly because of a judge's order to finish his cross-examination of Barksdale by the end of the day. The judge expects MSFT to refute 127 pages of allegations in 3 days with a witness who has a hard time remembering what he had for breakfast. This will not make it past the Appeals Court. Warden on the Offense: Details what NSCP thought of their own browser: He was later expected to confront Barksdale with e-mails from his own employees, who complained angrily in the messages about their own Internet software as shabby and bug-ridden. Some even praised Microsoft's browser, which provides access to the Internet, as technically superior. The e-mails, many laced with obscenities, are important to Microsoft, which is trying to show that Netscape's business failures were its own fault, not due to allegedly illegal acts by Microsoft. Netscape once claimed nearly 90 percent of Internet browsers used, but it now has about half the market. In the weeks before the trial, Microsoft subpoenaed copies of about 4,000 e-mails by Netscape employees written over the last two years. The messages were part of the company's informal "bad attitude" and "really bad attitude" forums, in which workers griped about everything from cafeteria food to product marketing.