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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (21428)	11/12/1998 11:57:00 PM
From: Bearded One	Respond to of 24154

Actually, MSNBC seems to have been very fair. While they may have reported the company line, they didn't endorse it and they've been providing balance IMO.

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (21428)	11/13/1998 2:17:00 AM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 24154

Microsoft Tries to Discredit Intel Executive nytimes.com As promised, the good gray Times weighs in, and this story is good for a laugh with a blast from the past. Turns out that McGeady and I look to be like two great minds on the subject. Note in advance: THAT'S A JOKE. McGeady may be smart, I'm just a smart alec on the subject. As the morning advanced and the attacks grew sharper, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson asked Holley: "What is the point of this? What are you trying to accomplish? Are you just trying to embarrass him?" Holley said he did not want to respond in public. Oh, why not? Microsoft hasn't shown any reluctance to propagate any number of silly PR lines in public. Take that infamous meeting, please. Just to tell Netscape about neat new features. Mark Andreeson's fantastical invention. It was all a setup. I think the setup line is still the currently operative version, but that seems to imply that the Netscape account is, you know, pretty much what happened. On to the "great minds" part. Still, by the end of the day it was clear that McGeady was no fan of Microsoft. In one internal memo he wrote in August 1995, McGeady noted that Microsoft had bought rights to the Rolling Stones song "Start Me Up" to promote Windows 95. McGeady wrote that "Sympathy for the Devil" might have been a more appropriate choice. Yes! It's true!!! A blast from the past resurfaces, for old timers here. Bill Gates is a man of wealth and taste!!! Pleased to me you. Let me guess, is Bill the name? Note to the irony impaired: IT'S A JOKE!!! Sort of like the integrity and uniformity of the Windows95 experience, as opposed to all that "low quality" Intel software Bill was so incensed by. But then Holley ended his cross-examination of McGeady by reading another passage in the note to Grove. In that one, McGeady wrote that perhaps "Microsoft could be goaded into doing something really stupid and anti-competitive, finally enraging the apparently placid antitrust police." With a smile, McGeady observed that what he predicted had come to pass. Hey, it's all a setup!!! Now it's all McGeady's fault!!! He dah man!!! Cheers, Dan.