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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MaryinRed who wrote (47244)	2/15/1999 6:05:00 PM
From: Skeeter Bug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

mary, they were. they made a deal with cpq so cpq would install their browser. then gates slapped cpq around with some kind of threat and cpq caved in. just like i said, predatory practices. msft didn't cave. they fought and fought and fought for something so worthless? maybe bill sees the same value that i do... i'd pay millions to get on msft's desktop (ie, 90%+ of all new desktops) if i were in the software business. my competition might pay $10s of millions. hey, why isn't msft selling space on its desktop and forcing pc makers to have it loaded on the desktop? ooops, maybe that is plan b. ;-)