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...short answer is yes. The firm was merely doing what it always does: matching those who need capital (dreamy dotcom start-ups) with those eager to supply it (dreamier market neophytes, as well as a large number of institutional investors). Sometimes the dreams come true. After all, Morgan floated Microsoft and AOL, speculative plays in their early days...
...Microsoft Outlook, for example, can trash any mail not sent directly to your address. But that ends up junking a lot of useful stuff--such as the discussions on my journalism-school alumni e-mail list. AOL can turn away mail from anyone not flagged as a friend, but part of my job is to accept correspondence from strangers--like you, dear reader...
...away dominant cable company - and one that already owns a hefty share of the all content under the sun - could be daunting to any regulator worried about the possibility of monopolistic pricing in a deregulated industry. And the way the Bush trustbusters haven?t quite let go of the Microsoft case is not a good sign (unless it?s a sign of the power of AOL?s lobbyists...
...last week's column I wrote about how I was dissuaded from Mac OS X largely because of the arrogance of Apple. Well, Microsoft is just in a whole other universe of arrogance. Don't even get me started on its .Net and Passport strategies (that's another article altogether). But remember, we're talking about kinder, gentler Microsofties, at least compared with the pre-antitrust trial version. Then they were viciously monopolistic. Now, they're just plain sneaky, and they're trying to fly under your radar. My advice: don't let them...
...there's one thing the whole Smart Tags debacle taught us, it's that the new and improved Microsoft is prepared to retreat at the first whiff of consumer backlash. So if you care at all about the right of web designers to use whatever language they like without fear of users being blocked from seeing their efforts, write Microsoft and let them know you'll be thinking twice about purchasing XP. After all, it's a pretty dreary world without a regular shot of Java...