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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly?
MSFT 490.06+0.7%Dec 2 3:59 PM EST
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To: gial who wrote (7559)5/18/1998 10:25:00 PM
From: Scotsman  Read Replies (1) of 74651
 
The issue of innovation is an interesting one that I feel is very hard to quantify. Several on this thread say that MSFT is very innovative, in fact you would think that they are the most innovative company around. Yet how can that be said definitively? We don't really have a lot of others to choose from for comparison. I would say that Apple could give MSFT a run for the money in innovation, yet that would just by my opinion. I certainly don't want a bunch of government donkeys judging what is innovative and what is not.

The issue is the standard. Standardization has made the PC easy and effective to use, yet it, by definition, must throw out things that don't conform to its standard. Its a good bet that some of those things thrown out were probably innovative, but could just not be adapted to MSFT's plan or went against MSFT's vision. Hence you have the basis of the DOJ's suit. Is MSFT, by its sheer size or its business will, forcing companies to throw out innovation to create standardization.

Certainly going to be an interesting trial.

I should clarify my positions here. I don't own any MSFT,Sun, Netscape or any other software company. I am a hardware investor as I like chips more than code.
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