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April 2000

A Letter from Bill

Contributed by Kirk Nason

via the Iternet

To Our Customers, Partners and Shareholders,

For 25 years, Microsoft has worked to bring the benefits of the

personal computer to hundreds of millions of consumers and

businesses around the world. Our efforts to develop innovative

new versions of the Windows operating system and other new

technologies are contributing to the growth of the Internet, the

high-technology industry and the American economy.

On Monday, a U.S. District Court announced its conclusions of

law in the government’s antitrust case against Microsoft. We

respectfully disagree with the Court’s court’s ruling, and ulti-

mately believe the American justice system will affirm — as it

has in the past — that Microsoft’s actions have been both lawful

and good for consumers.

As we look ahead to the appeals process, innovation will

continue to be the No. 1 priority at Microsoft. We will continue

to hire great people, listen to our customers, invest in research

and development and create the next generation of great

software products.

We recognize that industry leadership brings both opportunities

and responsibilities. That’s why Microsoft did everything it

possibly could over the past four months to try and resolve this

case without the need for further litigation. We have always

believed that a settlementwould be is in the best interests of

consumers, our shareholders, our employees and the American

economy. Although we believe we have a strong case on

appeal, we will continue to look for new opportunities to resolve

it without further litigation.

The government’s case is based on a premise that we should

not have been allowed to develop new versions of VVindows that

included built-in support for the Internet. Our appeal will stress a

1998 U.S. Court of Appeals decision that affirmed Microsoft’s

right to build Internet capabilities into Windows to benefit

consumers.

Since this case was filed

almost two years ago, the high-tech

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In this issue

ADO Jumpstart

Setup Weirdness

Some Cool Tips

At LA Fox

Out and About

by Barry R. Lee

April 17, 2000,7:30 PM. Peter Butterfield. User Interface

Architecture—tips, tricks, and tirades.

Elsewhere

May 14-18, 2000, VFP DevCon 2000, New Orleans

Sheraton, New Orleans, LA. This new event is going to have

strong support from Microsoft and will be on the same scale!

level as Advisor’s DevCon in Miami. But it is offering several

innovative concepts. Content and direction has been deter-

mined by an advisory board made up primarily of speakers.

People attending this conference will be allowed to “cross-

pollinate” with the SQL conference, running concurrently at the

same hotel, free of charge. This means that while an attendee

may be registered for the VFP conference, he or she will be

able to attend any of the SQL conference sessions absolutely

free. Featured speakers at the keynote address will include

Robert Green, Product Manager from the Developer Division of

Microsoft, and Ricardo Wenger, Visual FoxPro Group Manager

from Microsoft. For more info, visit the website at http:ll

www.vfpdevcon.com

September 24-28, 2000, Advisor Visual FoxPro DevCon,

Fountainebleau Resort Hotel and Towers, Miami, FL.

Speakers are yet to be announced and no other details are

forthcoming as of press time. For more info, visit the website at

http://www.advisor.com/cm f0009p.nsf. fAny material relating to

this conference. ..speakers, sessions, etc.... still haven’t been

announced or released. I wonder how long we have to wait.]

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The April meeting of LA Fox will be held on

April 17, 1999, at 7:30 PM at our new meeting

place (NCR, 100 N. Sepulveda Blvd., El

Segundo, CA). For details on how to get

there, see the map on the back page.

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