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Technology Stocks : Novell is Dead. Apple is Dead. Long Live Microsoft!
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To: Roger Mariner who wrote ()12/4/1996 2:13:00 PM
From: nommedeguerre   of 238
 
Roger,

Microsoft is as uncreative a corporation as is humanly feasible. To somehow link the downfall of Apple with Microsoft is ludicrous! It was the open-architecture and cheap clones of the IBM PC which made it the machine of the masses. Microsoft happened to be in the right place at the right time and when you couple that with their ability to reverse-engineer other software products and call it innovation, you have a winner. The only original idea to come from Microsoft was MICROSOFT BOB -- wow, that set the world on fire now didn't it. Apple blew it on their own.

Microsoft has only one strategy: Let someone else make it popular and then we'll make it work with the new version of Windows before they can! Can you list a few of the exciting differences between X-Windows and MS Windows? How about those 8-letter filenames they finally ditched last year? They were quick to get that new feature to market now weren't they?! Have you ever used a REAL computer? (i.e. graphics workstation, etc.). When will the PC world demand that the IBM kludge finally be replaced by something that isn't based on a design from the early 80's?

At a 43:1 P/E; other than speculation, what makes Microsoft such an investment?

Both Apple and Novell do deserve a good bashing. Both were at the top and managed to blow it! Microsoft is the best marketing company on the planet, but they generally lag the competition in innovation and creativity, preferring to buy it from somewhere else.

Cheers,

Norm
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