On Saturday 12 February 2005 11:16 am, markdeb.browne at comcast.net wrote: > http://abcnews.go.com/Business/print?id=88655 > First things first, a large diverse company, and MS is that at this point, with a lot of cash in the mattress (or bank) isn't going to die an time soon. Witness: IBM. What will have to happen is new leadership will have to be found to evolve the company further. Once the monopoly is truly broken then we'll find out what MS is really about. For what it's worth we may all be surprised. Jack -- Jack Ungerleider jack at jacku.com