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

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (28926)	8/31/1999 9:34:00 AM
From: John F. Dowd	Respond to of 74651

MSFT's monopoly is not resource limited. There are plenty of programmers and plenty of money out there to overcome MSFT's "monopoly" and when someone builds a better system and markets it better they will prevail. The government has failed to show abuse. The spirited tales of interoffice EMails and disputations surrounding same do not a case make. Note well how SUNW is disclaiming that they are taking MSFT on in a vain attempt to preserve their case in court. I used to own a Mac and when Win 98 came along I switched as the MSFT system was now more stable and feature filled and open to many more apps than my Mac. The peripherals and O/S cost less as well and the support is better. Also I used NSCP exclusively as my browser until IE 5.0 yet I never paid for any as I downloaded all my NSCP browsers for free. There simply is no abuse. I own an HP my son owns a CPQ and my machine is less clunky because it has been screwed around with as much as his CPQ in terms of OEM messing with the O/S. It is not unreasonable for MSFT to curtail modifications to its O/S engine as they are the ones who suffer when it doesn't work. All the auto manufacturers do the same. JFD