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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly?

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To: Teflon who wrote (25865)	7/12/1999 3:06:00 PM
From: RTev	Read Replies (1) of 74651

Microsoft may be closing its Sidewalk offices. I'd be disappointed as an occasional user of the service if they closed it down. As a matter of fact, as you were writing that message, I was on newyork.sidewalk.com buying tickets to "Death of a Salesman" in New York, and searching through Off-Broadway shows for something more edgey. As I've mentioned before, it's the most ad-heavy site on MSN, but it's also expensive since they have to pay a fairly large editorial staff to put the information together. If they can't turn a profit on this service, it's too bad for the web and will probably be taken as yet another sign that ad-supported content doesn't (yet) work in this medium (even though that conclusion would, of course, ignore evidence to the contrary from places like C\|Net and marketwatch.com.) Failure of the business would be especially problematic because they have agreements with the publisher of Village Voice to use some information from their city papers. I hope they do at least manage to sell the properties to someone who will try to maintain the sites with most of the staff.

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