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Microsoft's tame economist, Richard Schmalensee based part of his anti-trust
testimony on an "independent" survey showing developers considered integrating
the Internet Explorer Web browser into Windows to be "a good thing".
Unfortunately for him, the Justice Department has a Feb 14, 1998 memo from
Bill Gates demanding just such a survey and specifying the results he wanted to
see (the survey came up with 85% in favor even though Gates had demanded 90%).
The DOJ also has a copy of a Feb 23, 1998 email from Ann Redmond of Microsoft's
research department stating the survey was "not entirely unbiased" and
cautioning that the press must never be allowed to see the actual question
posed to the developers. Reported in InfoWorld Electric, 15 JAN 1999.
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