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To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (30160)	10/16/1999 10:59:00 AM
From: TimbaBear	Respond to of 99985

Haim....I am not defending Microsoft or any company....and I am glad you have an opportunity to vent your frustration, but I didn't cause it....if I remember correctly the phrase "planned obsolescence" came from Detroit and the automobile industry, so I find it difficult to hold them up as the paragons of reliable engineering....Boeing has major inefficiencies in it's operations from what I understand....and, yes, Microsoft has problems too....as an investor/speculator, I don't look for perfection in the products, I look for opportunities to get a great total return on invested capital.....I invest in individual stocks not markets per se,....I find that it does not pay me to be emotional in my decisions....therefore, if I believed that MSFT would provide me with the greatest rate of total return of all the choices I had explored, then I would invest in it (I don't currently believe that it holds that opportunity for me now)....as far as investing in a company because they have a reliable product, I don't find that that criterion alone gives me good returns (buggywhips were pretty reliable products).