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Technology Stocks : MSFT Internet Explorer vs. NSCP Navigator
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To: Andy Thomas who wrote (19033)5/14/1998 3:28:00 PM
From: Keith Hankin  Read Replies (1) of 24154
 
it is funny how mcnealy of sun can sell something on huge margins, and when nt threatens to
shatter his business model from below, his only response is to go to the doj for help... that's pathetic.

You think that's the only thing he's doing? Do you think that any MSFT competitor is relying on any DOJ action? Companies will and should use all means of staying competitive, and that includes seeking anti-trust action when they believe that a monopoly has been used illegally against them. This is far from pathetic, but is what is and should be demanded by stock holders. Anything less would be pathetic.

other people will say msft stole dos, that cpm was better, but they never mention that the fat file
system, which i believe letwin of msft wrote, was far superior to cpm's at the time, and that was
what really won the os war for the early pc platform...
You're kidding, right? The initial FAT file system had no discernable advantages over the cpm file system, and certainly nothing that even remotely caused MSFT to win the OS war. And it is funny that you mention FAT, because more recently, it has been one of the more decrepit parts of MSFT technology. Only just now are they coming up with a new version that doesn't waste tons of disk space.
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