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To: Harvey Allen who wrote (22539)	2/3/1999 12:59:00 AM
From: Harvey Allen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

This is getting ugly The last time the United States government inflicted this much punishment on a foe, the evening news was filled with aerial photography of bombed-out vehicles and burning Iraqi tanks on the highway leading out of Kuwait City. Microsoft is taking what was already a tough case to defend and turning it into an almost textbook case of how not to try a lawsuit. Time and again, 19 times in fact, Mr. Boies forced Mr. Allchin to admit that the functions advertised by the videotape as unique benefits of the complete integration of browser functionality present in Windows 98 could also be obtained by installing Internet Explorer 4.0 with Windows 95. This is not a trivial point. What happened yesterday is that the government established, with Microsoft's own witness, that there is little if any justification for designing Windows 98 in a way that makes it far more difficult than with Windows 95 to replace Microsoft's browser technology with that of a competitor. mercurycenter.com His testimony on this point is the clearest indication thus far that the government may not be seeking either a comprehensive remedy that would unravel Windows' market power or a simpler remedy aimed only at the browser market. Instead, the testimony of the government's next-to-last witness strongly suggests that the government wants to put Microsoft under a far-reaching injunction that would almost certainly require ongoing government and court supervision. mercurycenter.com