For us it's not a big change -- there's always been competition out there,

The government is clearly as adept a PR machine as there ever was one.

I'm not going to react to the judge. That would be counterproductive in general.

For us it's not a big change -- there's always been competition out there. This is further evidence to bolster what we've said all along -- that there are tons of companies trying to provide better technology to customers.

We tried to resolve this out of court, ... They made an offer to sell us these things for tens of thousands of dollars. We said 'no way.'

This action will not have any impact on the release date of Windows 98. We expect it to ship as scheduled on June 25.