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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (21495)	11/16/1998 5:22:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 24154

Hi Michelle, What is the incentive for Intuit to do this? I know all about msfts little games with bundling from my days at Dell... but here we have a software company that theoretically competes with msft, whats the point? Intuit is an old topic here, of course. On this specific matter, the last news I cited here was a month ago, in www2.techstocks.com . This time around, I'll let the usual NYT irony stand on its own. Cheers, Dan. Microsoft Retort Reinterprets Gates E-Mail nytimes.com In relation to Intuit, the leader in personal-finance software, the Government suit quotes an internal Microsoft e-mail message written in July 1996 by William H. Gates, the company's chairman. It describes a meeting between Gates and Scott Cook, the chief executive of Intuit, which had recently started shipping the Netscape browser with its Quicken financial software. In the Government suit, the quote from the Gates e-mail reads, "I was quite frank with him that if he had a favor we could do for him that would cost us something like $1 million to do that in return for switching browsers in the next few months, I would be open to doing that." Oh, ok, one little remark. $1meg? Cheap, I imagine something better was done in the end. The notion that Gates, the nation's wealthiest person and the head of the company that dominates the personal computer software industry, would be the supplicant in any business meeting leaves Microsoft's critics unconvinced. "You would expect Microsoft to take positions that at least pass the laugh test," said Kevin Arquit, a partner at Rogers and Wells, who is a consultant to Sun Microsystems Inc. a Microsoft rival. "This paper suggests that Microsoft is worried about the evidence that is going to come out in the trial." The trial is scheduled to begin on Oct. 19 in United States Federal District Court in Washington. William Harris, the president of Intuit, has been named as a witness for the Justice Department and 20 states suing Microsoft.