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

To: Mr. Tomatohead who wrote (27892)	8/5/1999 9:58:00 PM
From: JP Sullivan	Respond to of 74651

you could make almost the same statement and replace AOL with Coca Cola Except that Coca-Cola has the secret formula, which is protected like the bullion at Fort Knox. What does AOL have? Coca-Cola also has tremendous brand recognition worldwide (to a foreigner it's practically synonymous with America) and indeed derives much of its revenue from outside the US. Correspondingly, so does MSFT. But not AOL. I'll bet that they partner on some projects within the next 10 years. That's what I've been saying. AOL should really try to get along with MSFT. I believe that if Steve Case carries on battling with MSFT, he's not going to be around for much longer. How about the animosity between Apple/Jobs and MSFT/Gates. Guess who first gave the Macintosh any credibility in the business world back in the 80s. None other than MSFT, by introducing Word and Excel. Indeed MSFT's products for the MacOS still brings in revenues of several hundred million dollars for the company. So it is in MSFT's interest to keep Apple around. Oh, I should also mention that MSFT was believed to have.. err.. "borrowed" Apple's technology, and one of the reasons for co-operating with Jobs and investing in Apple back in 1997 was to make the suits go away. On the other hand, it is vital to Apple that MSFT continues supporting the MacOS. Jobs understands that great design is one thing (and I'm a big fan of things coming out of Cupertino lately), but to survive you need software that is used by nearly everyone. That somehow works out to be what MSFT is making. Imagine if Office didn't work on the Mac. Too terrible to contemplate.