New Micro$oft trial

[agabriel at coe.neu.edu (Anthony J. Gabrielson)]

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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