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

To: John F. Dowd who wrote (11868)	10/27/1998 11:06:00 PM
From: John F. Dowd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

A Good laugh for All Softees: This what the government calls evidence! Particularly hysterical is the part in bold type-this is like 3 FBI guys sitting around talking about John Gotti and then submitting the notes of there conversation as evidence. The part I like is their is a certain aura of authenticity ascribed to the memos because the notes are scrawled- Wow let's lynch the sucker the accuser's notes are handwritten with poor penmanship! Bring in the Queen of hearts and off with the Gates' head! Justice Department attorney David Boies presented key evidence in court Tuesday buttressing the government's antitrust charges against MICROSOFT and severely testing the company's defense. In e-mail messages and notes from APPLE, AOL, NETSCAPE and Microsoft itself, Boies countered company claims that the case against it has been based on rhetoric and fabrication. One particularly damaging set of notes was of an August 1997 phone call between Apple Chief Financial Officer Fred Anderson and Netscape Chief Executive James Barksdale. In a handwritten scrawl, Anderson described how Microsoft threatened to abandon work on its Office suite of software for Apple's Macintosh unless Apple agreed to put Microsoft's browser on its computers, which it subsequently did. (Dow Jones) Now if that was all MSFT had to do why did they bother to invest $150,000,000 in AAPL. Who was robbing whom here? Of course AAPL's stock went up and MSFT probably made a killing offering further proof that MSFT wanted to "kill" AAPL. This is really getting hilarious! Good Night Nurse