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To: Exacctnt who wrote (23173)	5/25/1999 1:48:00 AM
From: t2	Respond to of 74651

Microsoft does not sell puts in the open market. What they have sold in the past, is put warrants and they were private transactions. I don't believe that Microsoft has sold any new put warrants lately Thanks for the information. I should have realized the obvious from their quarterly earnings reports. 36 months to expiration(for some put warrants) means 3 years away----March 2002. These would have to be private transactions. The only question is whether the private transaction results in a public transaction by the buyer of the put warrants with a third party. Is there any way to know this before we get the next quarterly earnings report? BTW--those big put sales for 2002 -- 70 strike were probably by some start investor who knows a sure thing when he/she sees it.