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Technology Stocks : COMS & the Ghost of USRX w/ other STUFF

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Nov 7 11:47 AM EST

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To: jhild who wrote (7282)	10/22/1997 8:05:00 PM
From: Scrapps	Read Replies (1) of 22053

"It is different of course, because MSFT is/should only be providing the operating system,* not defining the product that CPQ delivers."* Now don't get me wrong...I'm not a real MSFT fan, but I don't have it in for them either. I think there is some real questions to be answered which aren't cut and dried. I also have no position in MSFT. Where did that rule come from? Not congress! jhid...what you say is the basis to the whole question! The fine line between the OS and the browser are becoming blurred in the same way it did with word processors and spell checkers . Now since software is protected under the copyright laws the owner of the copyright has control over the condition the VARs get it into the hands of the end user, otherwise known as the retail customer. Why can't MSFT say keep third party icons, logos & ads off of it? I can hear an end user now saying to a friend..."Microsoft promotes NN because my PC came with it in the windows program". Now the strong arm tactics being used against CPQ (if correct)no doubt are being used against most if not all PC OEMs. I don't like it anymore than the next guy. I just have to question if it's not just hardball and not illegal. I really believe MSFT's focus has switched to market domination and that focus will be their down fall because it fails to serve the customer needs. What they are giving the customer is what MSFT wants and NOT what the customer wants. I believe a simple poll would tell us the vast majority of PC/'Net users don't want the browser blended into the desk top. I.E. 4.0 is too integrated into Windows now...at least for me, so I plan to add Netscape software soon. If you are concerned NOW, just think about the Intel/MSFT relationship. One builds the chips, the other builds the software. MSFT will get around the DOJ the same way Intel did with their Intel Inside program.

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