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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly?
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To: DownSouth who wrote (31713)11/5/1999 2:35:00 PM
From: paul  Read Replies (3) of 74651
 
"..failure of WP and Lotus was because MSFT came out with Windows 2.0. WP and Lotus refused to write product for Windows until 3.0 was about to be replaced by 3.1, or there abouts"

So in other words, rather than competing with a better version of Word - which everyone acknowldeges sucked at that time - Microsoft changed the platform which Lotus and Wordperfect couldnt compete with. Sort of like trying to build a house when someone else owned the blueprints. Did Microsoft's OS team share information to the applications team to give MS a leg up on their competitors? of course they did - even the perception that they could would cause competitors to hesitate if they knew Microsoft could change the rules any time. Wordperfect was more committed to OS/2 because they knew they had a fighting chance with IBM should OS/2 succeed - not because they were afraid to compete. Now Microsoft owns every desktop application of consequence or has bought or made attemps to buy them - is it any wonder that the desktop software industry is dead - Microsoft has sucked all the air out of it!

your argument is all the more reason to break up Microsoft so that the OS team and the applications team compete fairly.

IMHO of course!
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