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

To: art slott who wrote (32900)	11/8/1999 1:15:00 AM
From: Don Edgerton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Usually a monopoly cuts prices below costs to drive out the competition and then raises prices. Microsoft is accused of charging too much. Hardly a sign of unfair competition. Believe Borland pirated code (look and feel?) and cut prices. Microsoft and Lotus matched with low upgrade prices. Don't believe they ever actually undercut Borland. Judge erred in his limited definition of Microsoft's monopoly. By his definition Sun has a monopoly on Sun software. I bet 90 % of Sun product users use Solaris. Apple has a monopoly on its operating system for Macs. Be Software has a very small fraction of market share and Apple pulled licenses away from other clone manufacturers. Apple should be sued. This whole case is a parallel to the tobacco case. It is an attempt to extort money from large companies who happen to have a lot of cash and which by the way have paid their fair share of taxes.(Unlike big oil and some others) The ultimate cost as with the cigarette companies litigation will be paid by consumers. I have and still have the option to buy a Mac or even a Intel PC and run Linux. I can get LInux cheaply as with some other software. In fact only 4 years ago did I switch to a PC and then only because MS had finally gotten the operating system to the level of my 1985 MAC which I couldn't use on the Internet and which wouldn't run some proprietary company programs which I needed. THis whole deal is also a smoke screen to divert attention from the other incompetencies of Reno and her band of extortionists. I note one company which did not go against MS. DELL. That is becuase DELL runs a tight ship and doesn't need someone else to blame for management shortcomings. Without the WINTEL revolution and the advances in ease of use in PCs, this Cinderella economy would have ended quite a while ago and we would never have seen a budget surplus. The government is doing its best to foment extremism.