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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ed who wrote (23793)	6/8/1999 3:24:00 AM
From: Tae Spam Kim	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Microsoft Bully - 1:05 PM EST - TK Any computer enthusiast in the last decade would tell you Microsoft had always strong-armed its customers with unfair business practices. Remember charging for DOS "per PC sold" even if the maker didn't include it on a PC, forcing PC makers to use Internet Explorer, disabling Real Networks G2 Player in the new versions of the Win OS, the king of "vapor" ware, buying off internet sites to use IE technology, stabbing IBM in the back with OS/2, giving software away for free or low prices (IE, Microsoft Encarta?) to gain marketshare, etc. etc. The list goes on and on. By leveraging their OS monopoly to force users to buy other Microsoft products, the company stifles innovation in the computer industry. Microsoft should pay. An IBM Corp. executive testified Monday that Microsoft Corp. threatened to withhold its Windows operating system because IBM intended to include software from a Microsoft rival in its personal computers. Norris said Microsoft balked at IBM's inclusion of its own OS/2 operating system in its PCs. Norris also testified that Microsoft wanted to charge IBM $75 for each copy of Windows 95, a higher rate than Microsoft charged such favored firms as Compaq Computer Corp. (CPQ). According to Norris -- currently director of IBM's networking hardware division -- Microsoft Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Bill Gates was irate over the prospect of IBM bundling a rival's software suite in its PCs, and negotiations for a Windows 95 licensing agreement came to a screeching halt. - CnnFn.com