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To: Bearded One who wrote (22107)	12/10/1998 5:58:00 PM
From: Charles Hughes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

<< This is evidence that at least one reason for putting IE into the OS was for the purpose of hurting Netscape. >> Even if an inevitable side effect was to force millions of users to cast out their old, expensive hardware (purchased a year or two before) and buy new. So Gerry, there would seem to allegedly be hundreds of millions or billions of dollars of consumer harm here, and a smoking gun in this email. Would that satisfy your need for particular examples of computer harm vis-a-vis the Chicago School opinions on antitrust? Cheers, Chaz P.S. One reason for some hardware mfrs to be less forthcoming about MSFT is appallingly apparent here. The forced MSFT upgrade cycle and inefficient OS code techniques also benefits those hardware mfrs. Not, of course, that the continuous rain of new devices wouldn't force a fairly frequent machine upgrade cycle for many consumers. But they certainly made money out of this for a long time. It is only now, now that the OS price is such a significant part of the total box price, and the spotlight is on their business practices, that they protest.