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To: MeDroogies who wrote (22123)	1/8/1999 11:50:00 PM
From: soup	Respond to of 213173

Report: Microsoft overcharged by $10 billion. via Bloomberg >Cooper called on U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, who is presiding at the Microsoft trial, to rule that the company has abused its monopoly power. That could make a class-action consumer suit seeking recovery of the alleged overcharges "a distinct possibility," he said.< planetclick.com The statement about OS profits surprised me. I had followed Don Crabb's lead that Rhapsody for Windows (a putatively superior Unix-OS) would be licensed by MSFT and renamed Windows 2000 -- supplanting NT. The premise was that OS sales generated little profit relative to other things uses of MSFT's resources. Evidently that was wrong. However the prospect of a monetary payout would remove the profit motive. And if successful DOJ prosecution meant MSFT could not leverage its OS into growing marketshare for apps and services, then it becomes a "why bother?" scenario. The operative concept here is "control". I can't imagine MSFT voluntarily giving up Windows. Yet, if they were compelled to, then they would try to work with the company with whom they felt they had the most influence over. So if MSFT finds itself unable to leverage, or profit from, OS development, then who better to partner with than AAPL -- who depends on MSFT for Office and Explorer? Jobs took pains to put the most positive spin on the MSFT/AAPL "marriage", which I can take at face value. But in light of the ongoing DOJ trial, that relationship could evolve into something far more consequential.

To: MeDroogies who wrote (22123)	1/9/1999 9:18:00 AM
From: Moominoid	Respond to of 213173

Market Edge-Second Opinion have upgraded AAPL from avoid to long/buy COMMENT Moving Average Convergence/Divergence (MACD) indicates a BULLISH TREND Chart pattern indicates a WEAK UPWARD TREND Relative Strength is BULLISH Up/Down volume pattern indicates that the stock is under ACCUMULATION The 50 day MOVING AVERAGE is rising which is BULLISH The 200 day MOVING AVERAGE is rising which is BULLISH LOOK FOR SUPPORT AT 31.63 RECOMMENDATION STOCK IS A BUY