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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly?

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Nov 13 3:59 PM EST

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To: Kashish King who wrote (46373)	6/10/2000 3:16:00 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) of 74651

A lot of people considered Bill Gates to be a low-caliber software developer Back in the 1970s I reverse engineered the Microsoft code for several BASIC products. (My failed company plan was to introduce compatible interpreters which used the same tokens as Microsoft but displayed in a Foriegn Language imitation of basic). I'm no fan of Microsoft, but I can assure you that the code was clean, organized, and efficient. I was a big Microsoft booster until they crushed Borland (a real innovator) and forced a re-design of my products such that my company and consulting never recovered. TP

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