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Recent M$ moves in Israel




I don't have any news about the M$ monopoly investigation in Israel. Mr. 
Tadmor is doing a great job, but unfortunately (for our cause) he's busy 
fighting local monopolies such as soft drinks, cement, etc. 

Some recent news about M$ and Israel or Israeli companies, and the Ballmer 
visit (from Globes):

M$ blackmailing mirabilis:
	http://www.globes.co.il/cgi-bin/Serve_Arena/pages/English/1.2.2.19.4

M$ threatening Checkpoint
	http://www.globes.co.il/cgi-bin/Serve_Arena/pages/English/1.3.1.7

M$ sucking VDONet dry
	http://www.globes.co.il/cgi-bin/Serve_Arena/pages/English/1.4.4

	(Also some general coverage on the recent Ballmer visit)

M$ moves to monopolize Internet surfing platform in Israel/Hebrew
	http://www.globes.co.il/cgi-bin/Serve_Arena/pages/English/1.3.2.9

	(This also includes connecting many government databases and services
	online using M$ software. As M$ uses an incompatible standard for
	Hebrew encoding, any citizen wishing to access online government
	sites will have to use 95 and IE.)



Regards,
Ariel

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Ariel Nowersztern            Systems Programmer          reln@cs.huji.ac.il
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