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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (51925)	4/20/1999 7:57:00 PM
From: Bill Harmond	Respond to of 164684

>>Siebel down in after hours. I can wait.

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (51925)	4/20/1999 9:13:00 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Respond to of 164684

Microsoft's Gates shows Windows 2000 with a smile By Emily Kaiser CHICAGO, April 19 (Reuters) - After a rough year of antitrust hearings and product shipment delays, Microsoft Corp. <MSFT.O> Chairman Bill Gates showed Monday that he can still laugh at himself. Last April, the head of the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant stood red-faced as his company's latest product -- Windows 98 -- crashed in front of thousands of people at a technology conference in Chicago. On the same stage Monday, he triumphantly showed off a test version of Microsoft's long-delayed Windows 2000 operating system, but took time out to joke about last year's glitch. "A lot of people have asked me in the last year, 'What happened to that guy'," Gates said, referring to Chris Capossela, the Microsoft employee who was demonstrating Windows 98 when it failed. "I was talking with Chris a couple of weeks ago and he said he wanted to try again." This time, the presentation went off without a hitch. Roll-out of Windows 2000 has been less smooth. The company had originally promised that the operating system upgrade would be out in 1998, but missed that target. Now executives say the last major test version will be released this month, putting the company on track for commercial release by year-end. Windows 2000, which is designed to ease office network computing, allows network managers to control which programs employees can access, and can repair damaged programs, even if users accidentally delete essential files. Gates also unveiled a new titanium-encased mouse with side buttons that can be used to page forward or backward on an Internet browser. The Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer uses digital imaging to determine its direction, instead of the little rubber ball that tends to malfunction when it picks up dirt. The new mouse will be shipped in September and available in October. Gates said in the next five years, every device with a screen would be able to connect to the Internet, but he poked fun at the rapid growth of technology at the same time. He played a videotaped image of himself superimposed as a member of the cast of the Broadway hit Riverdance, stomping his feet to the rapid beat with a huge grin on his face. The video showed "Star Wars" director George Lucas filming a spoof on Gap clothing ads. Instead of professional dancers sporting the latest Gap fashions, this commercial showed grooving computer programmers. Gates also took a jab at high-flying Internet companies whose stocks have climbed through the roof with no profits to back them up. A mock news broadcast said shares of online book retailer Amazon.com had closed up $78 at $6,104 -- and the company hoped to post its first profit some time next year. Shares of Microsoft were trading down $3.25 at $83.25 in morning Nasdaq trading.