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

To: Roger who wrote (30058)	9/24/1999 2:55:00 PM
From: Jon Stept	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74651

Roger- re: This was strange... I disagree. This was dangerous. And the funny thing, people are worried about the stock price now, but the majority of damage from this will be the ignominy of shareholder disrespect. Whenever anybody reads Microsoft's mission, which in part is to enhance shareholder value, the statement Ballmer made yesterday will forever and always undermine any attempt to cultivate trust in this mission. Whenever Microsoft says publicly it is working in the interest of shareholders, everybody will be able to say, no you are not, you are a company that disrespects shareholder and actively destroys shareholder value. Remember when...? They will never, ever be able to hide from this. All are suspicious and vigilant to corporate abuse that undermines shareholder value... we are paranoid. But the corporation can always say "prove it" and we are hard pressed to do so. And they hide behind that safe haven. So we have to establish a tenuous, fragile trust. That is a corporations ace-in-the hole. Ballmer broke the bond of trust between shareholder and corporation, and as anybody knows about relationships, the detrimental effects last long, long, long past the immediacy of the action. The seeds have been sown... Just my opinion. Jon :)

To: Roger who wrote (30058)	9/24/1999 6:34:00 PM
From: t2	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74651

MSFT never states that its stock is undervalued-----i usually hear overvalued. Nothing new here. If Ballmer or Gates say that MSFT stock is "fairly" valued, you can bet it is about to take off. Their comments on their own stock along with the deferal of revenue to future quarters is a sign to me that the stock is really undervalued compared to other big cap techs. Only a company so confident about its business would try to make statements that could knock down the stock. I don't know of any other company that does this. Great reasons to own Microsoft.