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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Frank Ellis Morris who wrote (16615)	2/21/1999 6:30:00 PM
From: RTev	Respond to of 74651

A number of news articles point out that the MS lawyers shouldn't shoulder all the blame for what's happening in this case. T2k posted one a few messages back which notes that Microsoft seems to be taking a very hands-on approach in this trial. That can be disasterous (ala, the old saw "He who represents himself has a fool for a client"). I think it's interesting that the Compaq executive who testified the other day seemed to be very well-prepared while the MS executives did not. It's just a matter of time. Nobody who testifies at a civil trial should be surprised by any document they see. This isn't Perry Mason, after all. All of the exhibits used in trial are introduced long before a witness appears. The witness should be familiar with seeming contradictions and should be able to lead the questioning back to the main point. Compaq's witness did that. Microsoft's execs failed to do that. I suspect (and news-story interviews with lawyers confirm) that that is because Microsoft was not giving the lawyers the several days they need to prepare a witness before getting on the witness stand.