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To: John F. Dowd who wrote (21217)	11/4/1998 5:26:00 PM
From: Bearded One	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

Actually, Microsoft's market penetration started when they began to include IE 3.0 on Windows 95, not when Microsoft came out with IE 4.0 as they like everyone to believe. Anyway, as I said before, Microsoft's failure in killing off Netscape is not evidence that they didn't try. Microsoft's internal emails, discussions with other companies, and attempts to divide the market with Netscape however, is evidence that they did try. As for crimes, attempting to divide a market with a competitor is an automatic violation of Sherman. So unless Microsoft can show some evidence that the June 21 1995 meeting wasn't an attempt to divide the market, then they've already lost the case.

To: John F. Dowd who wrote (21217)	11/5/1998 2:56:00 AM
From: Andy Thomas	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Hi John, Re: Mac and Apple Apple lost it in about 1991-2 when Windows 3.0 led into 3.1. During that time, Apple had their last opportunity to capture the desktop market with lower pricing. They priced themselves out of the market. I could see it coming like a freight train... what a wreck. They've made mistakes with licensing clones and then their was the fiasco I heard about where they cut BeOS out of the Power Mac market because Be dared to write for the Intel platform. I like the PC platform -even from the standpoint of windows 9x - because you can get all kinds of different parts and build your own machines. Can you do that with the Macintosh? Software availability is another concern - Win 9x has scads of it. From a support standpoint win 9x is good because a lot of people have to have their machines serviced - that means gainful employment for a lot of technicians. FWIW Andy