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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly?

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Nov 21 3:59 PM EST

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To: Bill Holtzman who wrote (15110)	1/25/1999 3:41:00 PM
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MSFT invests in NTL of U.K. Looks like they are still betting on cable companies. This time they will probably ensure that Sun Microsystems does not get any of the business without making investments in cable companies. It looks MSFT software will used to a greater degree than in the TCI set top boxes. Now the MSFT chats with AT&T make more sense. They wanted to chat with the future owners of TCI. Maybe they were trying to a get bigger piece of the set top boxes giving up some internet related properties in return. MSFT does not appear to want to buy a cable company because it wants to be able to do deals with lots of cable companies. If they were to buy, other cable cos may pick SUNW for the software feeling a MSFT threat. It seems MSFT wants to avoid this perception among the cable cos.

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