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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly?

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Nov 28 12:59 PM EST

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To: cheryl williamson who wrote (45199)	5/24/2000 1:05:00 PM
From: mozek	Read Replies (2) of 74651

Thanks Cheryl. I appreciate you providing the source, but I still disagree with the figures. They represent a sensational quote from an individual, not the results of a study. They also make no note of OS versions, and seem to ignore what I remember as many college kids writing Unix worms (another name for viruses) quite a few years back. Note the following text from the same article: Fred Cohen, a security specialist who performed the first research on computer viruses, says Microsoft may be only the largest of a group of offenders. After all, he says, one could write a version of Microsoft's Office for Unix that would cause much the same sort of trouble. And Netscape's Internet browser and mail program is not only highly popular among Unix users but also quite insecure from a security specialist's point of view. "Go ahead and take a swipe at Microsoft," Cohen says. "They deserve it. But if 90% of the world was running Unix and everybody was running Netscape on it, we would have the same kinds of problems on Unix." So now you've taken your swipe. How about my questions related to Apple and MacOS? Thanks, Mike

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