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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly?
MSFT 476.080.0%Dec 17 3:59 PM EST
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To: Shea Jones who wrote (21582)4/26/1999 8:43:00 AM
From: John F. Dowd  Read Replies (1) of 74651
 
Dear Shea: The post was indeed tongue in cheek but one day I did get a response from some fellow high up in the food chain of MSFT regarding the anti-trust matter and the GM -auto-radio metaphor. I think, as tech points out, that MSFT would be foolish not to pay attention to the ideas that are available from the net. Certainly the ideas that emminate from analysts are always in hindsight and the ideas that come from MSFT's own surveys are tainted by their view of the outcome. If I were MSFT I would pay very close attention to the posts of certain contributors to this board. After all it is free and completely free of attribution.

I can think of a number of people from this board who could have done a better job than Mr. Alchin in the demo debacle. MSFT, although a great company, can find themselves unwittingly insulating their mgmt. from the world and becoming oblivious to the winds of change- the internet is a case in point. MSFT started way behind and through determination and hard work caught up. The fact that Gates downplayed the importance of the net was all subterfuge hoping to buy time for MSFT in this catch up process. Actually I think these guys are better marketeers than "leading edge" engineers but in America that is the real essence. This is not to knock their expertise in engineering but it is difficult for one company to corral all of the world's brightest people so the trick is to corral the market place.

JFD
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