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

To: John F. Dowd who wrote (27735)	8/2/1999 5:11:00 PM
From: DownSouth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

OTOTOTOT Fine, I find him entertaining and refreshingly frank, but I happen to agree with him most of the time. I don't see any evidence to judge his morality, and I have no idea what Capone and Dilinger have to do with this conversation. end of my end of this conversation.

To: John F. Dowd who wrote (27735)	8/2/1999 5:12:00 PM
From: t2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

JFD, Read this--He problem is easily solved. Just don't buy MSFT products. What a bozo. quote.bloomberg.com COMMITTEE TO FIGHT MICROSOFT CORPORATION COMMENTS ON NEW YORK Times Survey The Committee to Fight Microsoft Corporation will be available today for reaction comments to a New York Times survey indicating diminishing public confidence in Microsoft Corporation. "I believe that our efforts, and the efforts of the Department of Justice are slowly having an effect," says Andy Martin, Executive Director of the Committee to Fight Microsoft. "I cannot deny that Mr. Gates has run the greatest stock market casino in history. But the reality is that Microsoft makes lousy products. In the future, Microsoft will be nibbled to death by new market entrants who are taking advantage of the bloated products manufactured by Microsoft. "Almost five years ago when I entered the battle to oppose Microsoft's domination of the computer industry there was still some hope for self-remedy. But with every passing year, Microsoft's products get more and more bloated and more and more unusable. No one in his right mind would buy a Microsoft product if they had a reasonable alternative. "We are paying homage to a monopoly, and like all monopolies in history, this one will eventually be dismembered, perhaps sooner than we realize. When Judge Jackson enters into the remedy phase of the pending antitrust case the Committee will be filing with the federal court in Washington proposals to break up Microsoft. At this late date competition will not be the public's salvation, but it will be an improvement over what exists today. Shoddy products forced on an unwilling public with deceptive marketing tactics and monopoly power. "My proposed Consumer Protection and Computer Competitiveness Act of 1999 represents the best hope for a legislative solution, which is why I am a Republican candidate for the United States Senate from Florida in the year 2000. If I am elected I would be Bill Gates' real Y2K problem. I got 35% of the vote in 1998; in 2000 1 hope to win. "The New York Times survey confirms the people have been listening. Has Microsoft?" states Martin. CONTACT: Andy Martin, 561-833-9825. SOURCE The Committee to Fight Microsoft Corporation -0- 8/2/99 /PRNewswire -- Aug. 2/ CO: The Committee to Fight Microsoft Corporation; Microsoft Corporation ST: Florida, Washington IN: CPR SU: -0- Aug/02/1999 16:09 EOS (PRN) Aug/02/1999 16:09 197 -0- (PRN) Aug/02/1999 16:24