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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly?

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Nov 20 3:59 PM EST

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To: The Phoenix who wrote (24379)	6/18/1999 3:32:00 PM
From: Tom Chwojko-Frank	Read Replies (1) of 74651

I disagree a bit with both of you. I do think Microsoft has a vision: give the customers what they think they want. Suggest what they should want next. If they want someone else's idea, copy it with a little more glitz and a nicer interface. However, nowhere in their vision is any use for 'innovation'. 'Innovation' implies that the idea is brand new. I challenge anyone to name the MS developments that MS did not copy from a competitor, or buy from a soon-to-be competitor. And they do not dictate the great ideas, just their implementations. Microsoft is successful because they implement very efficiently in two senses: First, they make sure that anything that is in the user's face is slick. Everything else can wait. Second, they churn out products at a fair clip. We work with a lot of platforms, and while some developers know that other OS'es may be better from a technical standpoint, MS's development environment makes programming a whole lot easier. Tom

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