F.Y.I. on today's MS Hearing Before Jackson

["Kathleen H. Hilton"<Kathleen_H._Hilton@jonesday.com>]

this email will probably arrive after you have picked the story up off of
the wires, but just in case, MS and DOJ announced a settlement at this
morning's hearing before Judge Jackson.  please note the settlement and the
order accepted by Judge Jackson apply ONLY to the issue of compliance with
Judge Jackson's 12/11/97 preliminary injunction.  the order states that MS
will now notify OEMs that 2 additional WindowsR 95 licensing options are
available.  in remarks made after the hearing Mr. Neukom stated that MS is
very pleased with the order because MS wants to concentrate on the real
issues involved in the case and the case as it goes forward in the court of
appeals.  the following language is verbatim (typos nothwithstanding) from
the order:

(a)  The option of licensing and preinstalling OEM Service Release 2.0
("OSR 2.0") of Windows 95 as modified to reflect the set of changes that
would be made by running the Add/Remove Programs utility with respect to
Internet Explorer 3.x, based on instructions to be provided promptly by
Microsoft to the United States for its review and comment and then to OEMs;
and
(b)  The option of licensing and preinstalling OSR 2.0 of Windows 95 as
modified by removing the Internet Explorer icon from the desktop and from
the Programs list in the Start menu and by marking the file called
IEXPLORE.EXE "hidden", based on instructions to be provided promptly by
Microsoft to the United States for its review and comment and then to OEMs.