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

To: taxman who wrote (28137)	8/13/1999 10:51:00 PM
From: Jim Lamb	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Taxman.Eye opening post. IMO if MSFT wants to challenge AOL in the ISP market free service is the least they need to do. At this point AOL has such a lead,17 mill. plus subs., brand name etc. that MSFT will need to pay people to switch away from AOL. <<Microsoft wants to rebuild its MSN Internet-access service, which has lost about half its subscribers and now has only about 1.5 million, according to analysts. AOL has more than 17 million subscribers>> Aol increased membership by over 750,000 just in the last quarter alone that's 1/2 of MSFT's total members. I had no idea MSFT was losing members. I don't sell or worry about MSFT. It's a long term hold in shares and LEAPS for me,but as a ISP big boy I don't see it. That boat left the harbor years ago. Thanks for the informative post. FWIW, I have been with MSN for my ISP since getting on the internet in 1996 and get excellent service.