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Technology Stocks : MSFT Internet Explorer vs. NSCP Navigator

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To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (22173)	12/16/1998 3:07:00 PM
From: Keith Hankin	Read Replies (1) of 24154

If the benefit is great enough, it would warrant the consumer to install the superior radios. There is nothing that prevents them from doing so. Your usage of the analogy does not hold up because of MSFT's monopoly position in the software market (imagine one car company with 90+% of the market), and because of their claims that the "radio" cannot be removed from the car without causing the car to fail. Thus the consumer is forced to keep the "radio" installed whether they want it or not, and they have to pay for it. Moreover, MSFT does not publish complete and open specs for how their "radio" interfaces with the car so that competitors have to backwards engineer it to figure out how to replace it. Moreover, they cannot completely remove it, because MSFT decided to fuse the radio into the car.

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