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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly?

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To: Charles Tutt who wrote (3723)	10/22/1997 3:57:00 PM
From: Jon Stept	Read Replies (4) of 74651

IMHO, this DOJ evidence is weak.... The onus is on the DOJ to prove that Microsoft witheld "their" (the Microsoft definition) conception of Windows 95 from manufacturers for anti-competitive reasons. The Compaq testimony only shows that MIcrosoft would not allow Compaq to sell an OS that looked like Windows 95, but was not by MIcrosoft definition. It was Compaq's definition of Windows 95, not Microsoft's, that Compaq wanted to sell. (Windows 95 - IE) does not equal Windows 95. And they did not want Compaq to advertise and sell it as such. They probably (guessing) would have let them sell it with IE and Navigator, but not without IE. All Windows OS's have been sold with minimal set plus extras, but not miinus from minimal set. They say they will show them as being seperate product's Seems like we are getting into a very grey area of semantics between product, component, etc. What if Microsoft had a "Product Development Team" for Defrag and Disk Compressor, let alone other OS compnoents that are native to their OS's, like their Disk Administrator or License Manager for NT Server? Does that mean that it was a seperate product. I have held MIcrosoft for about 2 years and during the past 2 weeks I have considered selling my stock because I disdain anti-competitive companies. But it looks like time and time again, Microsoft is walking a fine line very gracefully. Thanx, Jon :)

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