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

To: Brian Malloy who wrote (32512)	11/7/1999 1:38:00 AM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Wrong. >It is being consistent so that companies like Dell which are JIT have stable suppliers. The components that make up the Corel suite due to their wide ranging origins are still being hobbled together into a seamless package.< "Stable suppliers"? LOL. Dell et al get a single "gold CD", from which they make copies with expensive machines capable of rapidly making copies of CDs. So throw out that argument. As for the Corel Suite, it is top notch, and in fact runs neck-and-neck with MS-Office feature-for-feature. I use Corel Suite at home, and MS-Office at work, so I know. Plus, I read the reviews, and they affirm that Corel Suite is a state-of-the-art package. FWIW, Corel invented the "tabbed worksheet" in QuattroPro spreadsheet, which MS copied. Also, Corel was first to put live web links capability into WordPerfect. Yes, WordPerfect had that before MS-Word. Throw out your second argument. As to whether the marketing agreements with the OEMS to include MS apps in every PC are illegal, they might be illegal if MS leveraged their status as an OS monopoly in order to attain those agreements. Furthermore, however they attained those agreements with Dell and Gateway, customer choice was and still is stifled. Got any more arguments?