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Technology Stocks : MSFT (Microsoft) vs. DOJ (Department of Justice) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rusty Johnson who wrote (121)	10/31/1998 7:45:00 PM
From: Sherwin Reiff	Respond to of 185

I wholeheartedly agree. Excel is the only product macroshaft has ever created (not stole or bought) that is truly superior to its competitors. Word is not as functional as WordPerfect, and Access is a joke.

To: Rusty Johnson who wrote (121)	11/5/1998 12:47:00 PM
From: Rusty Johnson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 185

Great Soap Opera ... Associated Press and San Jose Mercury mercurycenter.com During his second day of cross examination by Microsoft lawyer Theodore Edelman, Tevanian continued to fight off intense questioning into his written testimony and even strengthen his story that Microsoft had tried to use its dominance to kill QuickTime. When Edelman showed an e-mail by an Apple executive that suggested a deal with Microsoft might help Apple's product line, Tevanian fired back that the marketing development team had done a bad job and that executive has since been fired. And when Edelman suggested that Tevanian's testimony that "Apple's engineers could see no reason for Apple to abandon its highly popular QuickTime technology" was contradicted by internal Apple memos, Tevanian turned directly to Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson. "Your honor, that's not even close to true," said Tevanian. Jackson grew visibly irritated with Edelman's line of questioning over a series of internal Apple e-mails discussing proposals that they might make to Microsoft. After Tevanian repeatedly explained that those discussions had been shot down and never became an actual proposition to Microsoft, Edelman continued to ask questions calling it a proposal. "You keep mischaracterizing what he told you. This is not a proposal. It's misleading language and it's not acceptable to me," Jackson said. nytimes.com Avadis Tevanian, a senior vice president for Apple, took the stand in the government's antitrust trial and recounted an April 1997 meeting between several of his engineers and a Microsoft manager. Tevanian said he was told by one of his engineers, Peter Hoddie, that Microsoft tried to intimidate Apple into abandoning its popular QuickTime software, which lets people to hear audio and watch video over the Internet. The program competes directly with Microsoft's own multimedia software. Tevanian testified that Hoddie asked Microsoft to clarify its request: ''Do you want us to knife the baby?'' Microsoft's response to Hoddie was clear: ''Yes. we're talking about knifing the baby.''