From: Denys P. Beauchemin <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Saturday, November 01, 1997 9:56 PM
Subject: Re: Wildly off-topic: the end-of-world occurs this Sunday!


>Good point Winston.  Last weekend, I was watching the talking heads on
>Sunday morning discussing this issue.  It really is Microsoft VS
>Microbrains.  It is frightening to think that people who know absolutely
>nothing about the industry are even in a position to make legislative
>decisions.

How right you are Denys...  I really wonder if anyone at DOJ has a clue as
to what IE4 is, what it has under the hood, and how << integrated >> it it
to Win95 and upcoming releases... (I'm not under NDA for this release and
can say that it is TRULY INTEGRATED).  Install it and suddenly find that
every Explorer Window is "Internet Explorer"... that sounds like integration
to me.  The DOJ complaint is so full of holes, they don't have a prayer -
and I wish they would stop spending our tax dollars persuing it.

>Personally, I think the Clinton clique just wants Bill Gates to make a
>LARGE donation to Al Gore's campaign in 2000.  After all, the Chinese
>connection might be closed by then.  I suspect that as soon as Bill G.
>informs them that he will donate money, the inquisition will be ended.

Either that, or as I saw in a recent post (either here, or on ClubWin...)
Bill [Gates] may just buy the US Government, and make it a wholy owned
subsidiary of Microsoft ;-)  Under this scenario, Clinton gets a raise (a
departure from the normal Microsoft new hire, who usually takes a cut or a
lateral), but reports to Gates himself.  Rather humorous thought.

Cheers,
Joe