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kau...@MCS.COM (Michael Kaufman) wrote:

>In article <3ueqig$l...@gate2.internet-eireann.ie>,
>Peter Cox <pc...@orca.ucd.ie> wrote:
>>I don't know what you mean by "wrong". I know for a fact that to use MSN you
>>need to buy Microsoft Plus, which is an add-on package for '95 with
>>various other utils on it. 

>Think about what you are saying. The Justice department is considering 
>bringing an action against Microsoft because they are planning on 
>bundling MSN with Win95. If they are forcing you to buy something else in 
>order to access MSN, not only are they not giving themselves an "unfair" 
>advantage, but they are in fact putting themselves behind Cserve and AOL 
>who give out their access software everywhere you go.

>People, I know we want to nail Microsoft for everything under the sun, 
>but we really need to pick on side or the other:

>1) Are they dirty monopolistic bastards because they are throwing in MSN 
>access software for free and therefore pushing all the other service 
>providers into chapter 11?

>or

>2) Are they dirty money grubing bastards because they are going to try to 
>milk an extra $50 out of us in order to use MSN?


>>It's not a scam, but it's typical MS business....

>Now I know that we all can take it as a matter of faith that everything 
>that Microsoft does is evil, but could you back up this statement? Could 
>you give me even one example where Msoft claimed to be selling (giving) 
>something and then forced you to buy something else? Can you give a 
>closely related example? Or a distantly related one? The closest one I 
>can come up with is the Internet Asistent that they made a seperate 
>product from Word, instead of including it together. Oh wait, they gave 
>that away, didn't they? C'mon Peter, show me something to justify the 
>comment "typical MS business". 

>>And I do have a clue in this regard.

>Sure, sure.

>Michael




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did you notice that you are in games.strategic ?  I dnd'nt know that
Windows 95 was a game ?  maybe you'd get more replys in an operating
system forum.