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

To: art slott who wrote (32210)	11/6/1999 11:20:00 AM
From: art slott	Respond to of 74651

Welcome to Tobacco road. The Fud could be worse than a break up. A break up could benefit shareholders ie AT@T. >If Microsoft does not settle and Jackson's rulings are upheld, other firms could use the findings for the basis of civil lawsuits against Microsoft, experts said. Firms could cite Jackson's finding that Microsoft was a monopoly and would only need to prove their company was injured by abuse of that monopoly power.< news.excite.com

To: art slott who wrote (32210)	11/6/1999 5:10:00 PM
From: Gerald Walls	Respond to of 74651

But you can't a PC without Windows. PC = windows OS. And you can't get Windows without IE. Yes, you can. You can order Linux-based computers from several companies now. Or, you could always assemble your own. I know. I did. You can even download CD-ROM images of RedHat and burn your own CDs, paying only for the media. I know. I did. And, BTW, you can't download a disk image of RedHat Linux, or buy it in the store, without getting a copy of Netscape, if you want it or not. People buy Windows-based/loaded computers because of the convenience of having a pre-packaged system with a wide variety of Commercial Off The Shelf software available easily, quickly, and cheaply.