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Kate,

Why do you think MS got off the antitrust hook after Bush Jr was elected the first time?
You still believe Bush when he says there WMDs were the reason to liberate Iraq?
Have you never heard of any debacle in which DRAM makers agreed to fix prices?

Whatever area of society the list of insane political agreements is just unbelievably long which means it can't be ruled out that MS made some kind of deal with Intel in relation to the release of 64b Home Edition version of Windows in some kind of quid pro quo.

Just to be clear (again): I do not know if this is the case. But if it happened I think around the time that MS told Intel that they'd only do one 64b version of Windows for them, either for Itanium or for Yamhill, is the most likely moment it could have happened.

Regards,

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