Online auctions, both B2C (business-to-consumer) and B2B, are one of the fastest-growing areas of the Internet,

The single most important trend affecting ISPs over the coming years will be free Internet access, and no company is better positioned to benefit from that than CMGI,

Substantial progress has been made on refining our business model, but there is still more work to be done,

Moving forward, we'll continue to evaluate each subsidiary company in line with our larger business goals to reach market leadership and profitability and if necessary, effect further mergers, consolidations or divestitures to accelerate the achievement of these goals,

The Internet business for Microsoft is a loss business. Microsoft has been a financial failure in the Internet services business.

We were extremely pleased that we exceeded our consolidated financial expectations for the third quarter and significantly reduced our operating cash usage, ... We expect that these trends will continue into fiscal 2002.