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To: uu who wrote (8066)	3/6/1998 6:25:00 PM
From: micromike	Read Replies (1) of 64865

Addi, I also watched the Senate hearing and I came away that MS does have a monopoly. The exchange between Dell and the Senators was the best example of how a monopoly can control the equipment suppliers. This is how I saw it. exchange2000.com You need a example take Netscape and this total putz Mike Dell. He said he supplies what the customers demand. Somebody said to counter the monopoly theory that Netscape has the bigger market share so that would indicate to me that consumers would want Netscape more often than IE. His own employee at the customer order desk even said he much preferred Netsape but they can't supply it with its computers. Then you get a guy like Sal who can't read between the lines when Dell only sells IE. Does Sal actually think Dell would admit that there is something going on behind closed doors and since MS has a monopoly they can control Dell. Since we are talking about the monopoly and how it controls all the players in the game. Bills other weapon to control the ISV is upgrades. If they cross him don't expect to get any upgrade info on the next release which he always says is greater and better but in actually fact is more unruly and more unstable. Once again the consumer gets the shaft. --- In a monopoly the consumer doesn't get a choice and the best product doesn't win. This is why IMHO Windows is the worst home Consumer Electronic product that I have ever seen but boy does it make money for MS. The NC has a chance to kick its butt but now MS is coming out with custom Java that runs on Windows only to try and prevent this and keep its monopoly which gives it control on what the consumers can buy. Microsoft makes new attack on Java www1.sjmercury.com The best thing that the DOJ could do is break out the OS from MS so it loses control of all the players in the game so the consumer will finally get a choice. That's the way I see it. Mike

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