New Micro$oft trial

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Subject: Re: New Micro$oft trial
Author:  "Anthony J. Gabrielson" <agabriel at coe.neu.edu> at InterNet
Date:    8/19/99 1:15 PM


I don't he said he NO to not using for at least 14 yrs well his dad was in 
office.  The media really has problems and need to drop an issue, to date 
I have met no one who is intrested in.
     
My .02
Anthony
     
On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Chuck Young wrote:
     
> Do I laugh or cry at this one?  It's getting hard to define "too 
> outrageous" these days...
> 
> Is George W. Bush really a dope-smoking lizard-being who has lived since 
> the days of ancient Egypt on the planet as a resident E.T.?
> 
> Chuck Young
> GTE Internetworking
> 
> On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Jerry Feldman wrote: 
> 
> > Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 11:43:53 -0400 
> > From: Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
> > To: discuss at tarnhelm.blu.org
> > Subject: New Micro$oft trial
> > 
> > Microsoft announced that it is selling advertising space in the error 
> > messages that appear in Windows. Acknowledging for the first time
> > that the average user of their operating system encounters error
> > messages at least several times a day, Microsoft is trying to take 
> > financial advantage of the unavoidable opportunity to make an ad
> > impression. "We estimate that throughout the world at any given
> > moment several million people are getting a 'general protection fault' 
> > or 'illegal operation' warning. We will be able to generate
> > significant revenue by including a short advertising message along 
> > with it," said Microsoft marketing director Nathan Mirror. 
> > 
> > The Justice Department immediately indicated that they intend to 
> > investigate whether Microsoft is gaining an unfair advantage in 
> > reaching the public with this advertising by virtue of its
> > semi-monopolistic control over error messages. 
> > 
> > --
> > Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
> > Boston Linux and Unix
> > http://www.blu.org
> > 
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