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To: Bearded One who wrote (21333)	11/10/1998 6:04:00 PM
From: GS_Wall Street	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

Take away MSFT applications bussiness and the MSFT OS is not so important, MSFT uses its monoply in the OS to leverage its aplications at the expense of inovation and competition. I have been forced over the years to use MSFT applications because corporations are affriad other application will not be compatible and require to much technical support.

To: Bearded One who wrote (21333)	11/10/1998 10:01:00 PM
From: XiaoYao	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 24154

Everything Mozek says in that statment is correct, but doesn't actually contradict Intel's claims. In fact, it supports the claims. How? I think it supports MSFT's claim, Intel wrote "low quality software" which would break Windows compatibility. So really, the point that NSP hurt Windows is actually evidence that Microsoft did something fishy here, because it provides motivation for Microsoft to stop NSP development. O.K. Suppose you and your partner both have products depending on each other and working together. Now your partner developed something new which will not work properly or even hurt your product's performance. What do you do? You voice your concerns to your partner, you would tell them since their new product doesn't work well with your nearly release product, you won't support it. Because it not only hurts your product, it hurts your partner too because both your products would not working well together. It also hurts the relationship between you and your partner. So what's wrong with that? Your partner then makes business decision what to do with it. They can either pend the new product development to find a better way to do it or go ahead releasing the new product without your support which of course will hurt both companies. Intel chose first option at that time since they knew hurting MSFT would hurt Intel too, same for MSFT. Now both companies all have their second thoughts. MSFT supports Alpha and is developing 64-bit NT on Alpha first, CE runs on non-Intel chips. Intel partnered with MSFT's competition SUN to support Solaris on Merced, they supported MSFT's competitors in Set-top box market, they invested in RealMedia to compete with MSFT's MediaPlayer. That is the competition and cooperation. Every company makes their decision on their own best interest, there is nothing wrong with it.

To: Bearded One who wrote (21333)	11/11/1998 4:00:00 PM
From: XiaoYao	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Intel Testimony Challenges Claim Of Microsoft Pressure>MSFT 11/10/98 Dow Jones News Service (Copyright (c) 1998, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.) By Mark Boslet WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--An Intel Corp. (INTC) executive said technical problems rather than Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) pressure led to the cancellation of a large part of the company's NSP software work. In a videotaped deposition for the Microsoft antitrust trial, Intel's Ronald Whittier said a determining factor in sidelining the project was that it didn't work with Microsoft's upcoming Windows 95. Disrupting the work was not simply "because Mr. (Bill) Gates (Microsoft's Chairman) was upset," Whittier said during his deposition. Microsoft attorney Steve Holley used the testimony, presented today in court, to counter Intel Vice President Steven McGeady's claim the project was discontinued because Microsoft threatened not to support Intel's next generation chip along with its chip technology MMX. Microsoft also was able to put computer makers "on hold with (an) NSP chill," according to an October 1995 e-mail from Gates. The NSP, or native signal processing, software work became a major focus of the trial on Tuesday as Holley cross examined McGeady. The software was designed to work in conjunction with Windows to enable a computer to "dance and sing" by better handling graphical and audio data. But the program was designed to run on Windows 3.1, not Windows 95, and was ready to hit the market in the spring of 1995, only four months or so before Windows 95. Although the pressure from Gates was a factor, "we were looking out for our own best interests" and didn't want to compromise Windows 95, Whittier said. And yet, the pressure on former Intel Chief Executive Andrew Grove was significant. In a June 1995 e-mail to Gates, Grove identifies NSP as a "key to the growth of the PC industry." "Merely being critical of what we have undertaken is not helpful," Grove wrote. "Telling us to go away is not helpful; nor is it practical: we ... genuinely believe that the end results of the NSP initiative are vital to our long-term success, so we have to persevere." Separately, Microsoft attorneys filed a motion before Federal District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson asking that part of Apple Computer Inc. (AAPL) Senior Vice President Avadis Tevanian Jr.'s testimony be removed from the record. Tevanian had testified Microsoft sabotaged Apple's QuickTime software by inserting error messages in Windows. Tevanian suspects misconduct by Microsoft but could not prove his claim in court, the motion states. Microsoft also didn't get an adequate chance to cross examine him because Jackson told attorney Theodore Edelman to move to another subject, the motion says. -By Mark Boslet; 202 862-9285