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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly?
MSFT 486.98-1.4%Nov 19 3:59 PM EST

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To: fishweed who wrote (7864)5/22/1998 11:34:00 PM
From: Hal Rubel  Read Replies (2) of 74651
 
Monopoly Innovation

RE: "THE REAL INNOVATION! The multi-monitor feature ..."

Innovation?:
More like nice improvement. Right? Doesn't innovation mean something new under the sun? A new direction. Where do you suppose this idea may have come from? Why did it take so long?

If Microsoft defines every enhancement or competitive adaptation as an innovation, might that make them seem like an innovator when they are in fact monopolistically slow to evolve?

When Henry Ford, the last to do so, finally began to offer cars in colors other than black, was that an "innovation"?

We can say that this years model is better than last years model, but mere self-comparison is not innovation.

HR
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