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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly?
MSFT 472.22-1.3%Nov 21 9:30 AM EST
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To: david_si who wrote (46647)6/14/2000 2:33:00 PM
From: cheryl williamson  Read Replies (3) of 74651
 
david_si

These arguments are pure b.s.

First, M$FT has always had a monopoly in PC O/S's.
Once they signed on w/IBM back in the early 80's
everyone who licensed an INTC-based desktop platform
automatically licensed "PC-DOS", which belonged of
course to M$FT. It was an exclusive deal. Everyone
knows that. No one prevented AAPL from marketing
their O/S & hardware. Everyone knows that too. That's
not the point.

M$FT was smart enough to realize that their O/S &
appls were inextricably bound and that the success of
their company closely paralleled the success of marketing
BOTH O/S & appls together. One sells the other.

So, M$FT made sure no one else's appls worked on their
O/S as well as their appls did. Customers didn't go
to the store just begging to get MS-DOS. They wanted
the appls so they HAD to get MS-DOS. No one said, "You
are not allowed to publish an O/S for the PC becuase
M$FT is the BMOC and what they say goes."

Later on, M$FT's exclusionary tactics moved from
the engineering dept. to their legal dept.

Pricing has little to do with this case except that with
competition in the PC software market, M$FT's prices
would have decreased. The real consumer harm has come
in the form of product quality (lack of), and false or
misleading statements from M$FT about what their products
would do.
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