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

To: t2 who wrote (25511)	7/5/1999 8:53:00 PM
From: puborectalis	Respond to of 74651

Microsoft Preparing 1st Consumer Version of NT, ZDNet Reports Bloomberg News July 5, 1999, 4:29 p.m. PT Redmond, Washington, July 5 (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp. plans commercial production in April 2001 of the first consumer version of its Windows operating system based on Windows NT, ZDNet reported. Code-named Neptune, the system will be the first for consumers that's based on NT, which is designed for businesses, instead of on Windows. Neptune is tentatively set to go into testing in the third quarter of next year, ZDNet said. Microsoft, the world's biggest software maker, plans to release another upgrade of its Windows 98 system, to be called Consumer Windows in 2000, in time for Christmas next year. (www.zdnet.com)

To: t2 who wrote (25511)	7/5/1999 10:08:00 PM
From: Roger	Respond to of 74651

The magic number is $95 5/8 which is the previous high for MSFT before the tech meltdown. I am hopeful we will test this level in the coming week. If we break this, $100 is reachable IMHO.

To: t2 who wrote (25511)	7/6/1999 11:56:00 AM
From: John F. Dowd	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

t2k: Anything MSFT does will result in eventual success and further evidence of their "illegal monopoly". They are just trying to get all O/S under the same kernel and simplify their future backward compatibility hurdles. Right now they are having to do double the work. This is one area where MSFT has definitely benefited the consumer-they have been very good at supporting older versions of the O/S. They did not make a big enough deal out of this during the trial in my opinion. They were too busy following the lead of Boise. I wonder what happened with Warden during the trial? Once again they are lagging the NAZ. This is very odd. Their earnings will blow the whisper number out by at least .05 if not .10. JFD