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

To: Brian Malloy who wrote (32240)	11/6/1999 12:49:00 PM
From: John F. Dowd	Respond to of 74651

Keep it up Brian!eom JFD

To: Brian Malloy who wrote (32240)	11/6/1999 7:22:00 PM
From: RTev	Respond to of 74651

The DOJ is attempting to: -interfere with innovation -interfere with the consumer's right to choose -become the de facto invisible hand of the market. That's the heart of Microsoft's case. What's interesting, however, is that the DOJ and now the court aver that it is Microsoft which -interferes with innovation -interferes with the consumer's right to choose -has become the de facto invisible hand in the market. Both Microsoft and the court take remarkably similar views of what the ideal market should be. Both claim that the market should be free to decide among competing technologies. Both claim that the consumer is better off in a market free from external pressures. Unfortunately, each of them takes a significantly different stand on the question of who it is that is interfering in the market.

To: Brian Malloy who wrote (32240)	11/7/1999 1:10:00 AM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

>The DOJ is attempting to: -interfere with innovation -interfere with the consumer's right to choose -become the de facto invisible hand of the market.< Actually, that is what MSFT does. Go to Dell's web site, and then go to Gateway's website. How do you want your PC? With MS-Works, or MS-Office? You can have it any way you want, as long as you want it with Microsoft Application program. You want something else, you pay extra. This is because of MS using tactics, which if the Judge decides was aided by their monopoly status in OS market, becomes an abuse of power, and illegal. And by getting the PC OEMs to accept this exclusive deal, it does deprive Corel and other possible application software vendors from having a fair shot at getting their app to the consumer on the OEM PC mfr. In this specific MS business tactic, I'm not sure if it "interferes with innovation", but Corel does lose tons of money because they don't get much revenue, but they do go ahead with innovation. This MS business tactic does though, "-interfere with the consumer's right to choose -become the de facto invisible hand of the market." What have you to say about that?