We can provide beta software to our developers in advance of the general public. We can easily link up with external partners, customers, and suppliers.

I was telling the truth. I feel like we got that point across.

In my column series 'The Main Thing,' I often talk about how Internet technology can improve the way people communicate - both within a business and between a business and its customers and partners.

I think they should separate Microsoft's application group from its operating system group.

Well, another market is being created now out of Internet technology.

I think the touchstone is to give consumers a full, fair choice without the power of a monopoly operating system pushing them in a direction that free competition might or might not achieve.

I want my testimony to stand on that point. But I would point out that Zona Research Inc. showed we have increased market share among business users, educational users, and government users over the past several months - and that's more recent than the IDC report.