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To: Brian Dooley who wrote (5417)	3/5/1999 10:05:00 PM
From: free__98	Respond to of 10081

Dear Brian, I had the same questions so I wrote to Wendy Carhart at General Magic and received the following reply: I felt better after this post! From Wendy: "If you read the announcement made by Registry Magic yesterday, you notice a few things. The basic premise of their announcement is that they will be building applications on Microsoft's Web-based IVR technology. The release states that Registry Magic is "working closely" with Microsoft. There appears to be no agreement or partnership between the companies other than this use of Microsoft products, which anyone can use. Registry Magic's Virtual Operator product (which runs on Windows NT) allows up to 12 calls to speak a name and have the call routed to the appropriate employee. According to our research, the Operator has a limited vocabulary of 500 names, and does not understand any other type of speech. The press release has no discussion of an actual product which will be coming out, nor does it give any timeframe for any jointly developed products. While a competitor in the loose sense of the word, we do not feel that Registry Magic has been "chosen" over General Magic by Microsoft. In fact, there appears to be no partnership between the two companies other than Registry Magic's use of Windows products. As of November 1998, Registry Magic had 35 full-time employees, and spent less than $1.5 million in research and development in 1997 and 1998." Very truly yours, Wendy Carhart Manager, Investor Relations General Magic, Inc. 420 N. Mary Avenue Sunnyvale, CA 94086 408/774-4457 408/774-4020 fax wendy_carhart@generalmagic.com