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

To: art slott who wrote (32233)	11/6/1999 12:37:00 PM
From: John F. Dowd	Respond to of 74651

Art Slott: Lu = Bell Labs. ATT= ATT and now ATT owns 40% of cable. Baby Bells still have wire to the home monopoly and on the whole although my LD bills have gone down my local and toll service has escalated to the point where telephone bill has gone up. MSFT doesn't compare to the monopolistic nature of a "Baby" Bell as one is tethered to that monopoly by a wire as in the case of ATT and cable. Do say that MSFT has some created some barrier to competition is just an apology for the companies that have abandoned the field and left the consumer at the "mercy" of MSFT. Fortunately for us all MSFT has not acted toward the consumer as a monopoly. To wit: Backward compatibility- low cost O/S (compare to AAPL)-Great Support-Cheaper peripherals and third party software-Great cooperation with third party vendors (ask any developer who has worked wit MSFT). These are not the earmarks of a monopolist. JFD