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To: Tim Luke who wrote (35252)	5/3/1999 12:25:00 AM
From: Glenn	Respond to of 90042

Now that is hot. I will think about that a bit. Buy yourself into the mainstream. Great move. Agressive and I like it. Glenn

To: Tim Luke who wrote (35252)	5/3/1999 7:54:00 AM
From: kathyh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 90042

good morning... thought i'd seen this article before... <ggg> now i know where... i don't think i've ever been the first one up before... it sure is quiet around here today... i like the sunw/msft angle in this article... especially as i still have some sunw... Where do you want to go today? Microsoft, meanwhile, recently paid $1 billion for a 5 percent stake in Comcast and doesn't want to see its investment go awry, industry observers say. More important, Microsoft wants its software to run the souped-up cable boxes atop TV sets. It's worried that AT&T could choose rival software from Microsoft's archenemy, Sun Microsystems (SUNW: news, msgs). The market for the new cable boxes, "intelligent" equipment geared to act as communications control centers for consumers, is expected to be quite lucrative. "Microsoft's main mission is to find out how to become a major player in information delivery," said analyst Thomas Hensel of Everen Securities. "They have been held back by lack of bandwidth."