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Good eye, Grampa! I was about to capture that one pargraph and comment.

It always seemed to me that this lawsuit was brought about NOT because the consumer
was harmed, but Microsoft's COMPETITORS were crying foul. I never felt harmed
by Microsoft, did you? I don't see anyone else quoting Microsoft here until your
comment. This part bears repeating, imho............

The Microsoft case is an example where its competitors, not customers, employed the
heavy hand of government to accomplish what they couldn't accomplish in the market.

I like Walter Williams.........

The only time that I was harmed was when MS released DOS 3 or something that wasn't ready for prime time. That was back in the Cro Mag days of computers.

I have used MS Works for over 10 years. I bought a copy and donated it to our church when we bought our first computer a decade ago. Today, MW Works in the package with MS Word does 98% of the computer work at our church. I can teach people how to Word Process in less than an hour and how to use the spreadsheet in about one hour.

With my new computer I have Windows XP and now I'm on MSN.com as my url. If there is a problem with my HP computer or the Windows XP system, I get a little online note that I have a problem. I use the mouse and it is repaired/patched on in less than a minute. It took me about 5 minutes to learn how to use Windows XP to get on line, do my investment stuff, banking, bill paying and of course go to the fly fishing sites and Free Republic.

The messing with MS helped to trash the tech industry and trigger the overdue recession.

MY DIL started her own part time business which she runs from her home. She bought the MS Works package with MS word and was using it in a day. She will use the Quicken with Check Free on MSN to pay both her business and personal bills to prepare her quarterly tax payments.

Whoreacle and others who couldn't compete against MS gave vast sums to Jake Reno's Rat Party to try and level the playing field. That is how bad corporations and the rats do business as a fascist partnership! Davis has it down to an exact science.

Thanks for bringing this up. Decades later when we bury the last socialists, someone will write the real history on Jake Reno, Gray Davis and others as they tried to crash MS with the dark and heavy hand of the Rat controlled government!