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To: drmorgan who wrote (21425)	11/12/1998 11:16:00 PM
From: XiaoYao	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

Microsoft Pins Lone Wolf Label On Intel Executive 11/12/98 Dow Jones News Service (Copyright (c) 1998, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.) By Mark Boslet WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--Hoping to show Vice President Steven McGeady doesn't speak for his employer Intel Corp. (INTC), Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) spent Thursday trying to label the executive as a lone wolf out of touch with upper management. Microsoft attorney Steve Holley used e-mail messages from McGeady's colleagues and a videotaped deposition from superior Ronald Whittier to make his case. This included a documented job review from Intel's Frank Gill calling him a "prima donna" and Whittier's observation that Microsoft "didn't view us as a competitor, just getting in the way." McGeady tesified this week that Microsoft threatened to withdraw support for Intel's Merced and MMX technologies if Intel did not discontinue various software projects, including its NSP initiative, which McGeady oversaw. Microsoft countered the software efforts were of low quality and weren't compatible with the latest generations of Windows. But Holley's greatest ally may have been District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson. Before McGeady left the courtroom after three days of testifying at the antitrust trial, District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson wanted to know whether McGeady was a spokesman for Intel. Typically under Sherman Act antitrust law companies, and not individuals, level complaints against other companies, and McGeady said he didn't represent Intel management. Instead, he said he was subpeoned by the Justice Department and came without opposition from the company. Intel Chairman Andrew Grove might share some of the same opinions - maybe just privately - or he might disagree, McGeady said. But the goal at Intel is to maintain a good working relationship with Microsoft, so in that sense "my appearance here creates a problem," he said. A 1998 e-mail from McGeady to Netscape Communications Corp. (NSCP) Chairman Jim Clark expressed a similar sentiment. If the Justice Department asks for testimony, "I will, without hesitation," he wrote. But "I don't want to go 'on-record' as volunteering to testify - that would piss off Intel's lawyers to no end."

To: drmorgan who wrote (21425)	11/12/1998 11:25:00 PM
From: XiaoYao	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Microsoft sharpens attack on Intel executive Judge asks if McGeady speaks for company By Barton Crockett MSNBC WASHINGTON, Nov 12 — A senior Intel executive called Intel CEO Andy Grove a “Mad Dog,” leaked confidential information to the New York Times and referred to the Rolling Stones song “Sympathy For the Devil” in a memo about Microsoft, according to e-mails and other documents introduced in court Thursday by Microsoft in an attempt to discredit the executive. msnbc.com