To: Bearded One who wrote (22422 ) 1/15/1999 5:57:00 PM From: Daniel Schuh Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 24154
Good story, Bearded One. Microsoft and fake surveys is hardly anything new, of course, I'm tempted to look up the traffic here around the time of Bill's Senate date and see if that one was touted by any of the local flacks. NT2K, the OS for the next millennium, slips again. Full story at 10, after we update the dog bites man coverage, and check up on the pope to see if he's still Catholic. I particularly liked this bit: Next, the antitrust itself is getting pretty nasty. As I predicted some months ago, the government's cross-examination of key Microsoft witness and MIT economist Richard Schmalensee, is hard-hitting, to say the least. As Greenstein noted Friday, "Schmalensee is being taken to bits. It is not pretty." And, as a result, his assertions that Microsoft is not a monopoly and has not harmed consumers, has been left in tatters. I got to look up Greenstein, but if he thinks Schmalensee wasn't pretty, just wait till all those "relatively junior executives" take the stand. Watch for Joachim Kempin's court date, that should be special. I predict an extensive discourse on postmodern economics, like the "free market" rational for doubling the price of DOS to Vobis if they chose to ship DR-DOS also. Should make Medusa look like Marilyn Monroe. (sorry, an alliterative stretch). Paul "Air Supply" Maritz is on tap too. Lucky for old friend Thomas Reardon he didn't make the cut. Too bad for the boys and girls in Redmond. But as I have often stated, "What goes around, comes around, and Microsoft's time is coming." And as I've often stated, it couldn't happen to a nicer company. Cheers, Dan.