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To: Alan Buckley who wrote (21782)	11/26/1998 6:21:00 AM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 24154

One point at a time, Alan. First, on Apple, you write: MSFT bashers claim the reason MSFT succeeds in office apps is that their apps groups benefits from special knowledge of the alleged monopoly OS. Yet, MSFT has an even larger share of the office apps on the Macintosh, where it has no special knowledge of the OS and in fact has a checkered relationship with the OS maker. Yes. The Office apps were originally developed for the Mac, then ported/codeveloped with Windows 3.0. So this particular line of reasoning seems dubious. (MSFT makes more money per unit on Mac software than PC software. Mac customers are used to being gouged, PC customers aren't.) Compare and contrast: Why are Apple's allegations about Microsoft "threatening" to discontinue Office For Mac considered illegal? I also disagree with people saying that Microsoft Office is a monopolistic product. Sure, Office has something like 95% marketshare, but there are several serious competitors out there with good products and stable financial backing. Just as a point of reference, I would say that it would be a lot easier to argue that Windows9x has a monopoly position. Not to mention that economically, it can probably be proven that it's not in Microsoft's best financial interests to continue supporting Macintosh. (Of course, it's also not in Microsoft's best strategic/DOJ interests if Apple died.) www2.techstocks.com That's Sal Habash. You guys can't have it both ways. Back to you, Alan. Further, the MSDN CDs MSFT offers to developers for little more than cost, is HUGE. What do developers need to know about Windows that's not there in some form? MSDN, little more than cost? At $4000 a year or whatever? It's certainly cheaper than buying the stuff piece by piece, but stamping CDs doesn't cost much, you know. I'll get back to the rest of the company line regurgitation later, maybe. There doesn't seem to be much of legal relevance there, except in the "it's all so unfair to Microsoft" whining sense. Cheers, Dan.