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

To: ed who wrote (32496)	11/7/1999 1:02:00 AM
From: NetFlyer	Respond to of 74651

I think that the car analogy has limited usefulness. Upon careful reading of the whole judgement, it appears to me that MicroSoft effectively threatened other hardware/software vendors, whom it was in partnership with. Yes Microsoft has produced some good products that have increased adoption of computers, but that is not the issue. The point is that Microsoft may have used illegal business practices to stifle competition. This will not be the end of Microsoft, but it will stop then bullying other companies. Then at some point in future the market will decide. At least we should be able to buy PCs from the main vendors with a choice of non-Microsoft operating systems, previously this was very difficult or impossible.