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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly?
MSFT 485.49+1.8%Nov 26 3:59 PM EST
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To: Al Bearse who wrote ()11/9/1999 8:55:00 AM
From: pagejack  Read Replies (1) of 74651
 
I would hope that MSFT is looking at the possibility of settlement and not holding out for a change in parties in the White House. IMHO that may/may not happen and MSFT will have very little/no impact on the decisions made by the public in the voting booth in November 2000.

I would much rather see MSFT adopt a strategy that allowed MSFT to have more control over its future. The FOF and the recent trial focused on the past as they must. MSFT's future lies just there, in the future, and not the past.

Any settlement with the Gov't will require MSFT to amend its past corporate behavior and to promise not to act prospectively in a similar fashion. But just how relevant are the past business practices/tactics to MSFT's future? IMHO it is likely that software will no longer be bundled with the hardware boxes but delivered over the internet per SUNW's scheme. Undoubtably other significant changes are on the horizon.

MSFT certainly has people who can perceive technology's future better than I. MSFT has been successful in large part because of its ability to be innovative. Why saddle MSFT's future with the practices of the past. MSFT has succeeded in a constantly changing business environment. Let's fashion a settlement that allows MSFT to do business as MSFT believes it must in the 21st century.
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