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

To: Ritch who wrote (33245)	11/8/1999 4:51:00 PM
From: cheryl williamson	Respond to of 74651

Ritch, AMD does not take INTC's code and put it into their chips Yeah, that's right, but they both support the same instruction set. THAT makes it an open specification that both companies subscribe to. It has been that way since Intel published it hardware spec to the original 8088. Their whole company was built around this O.S. Why should they give it away for free? It makes sense to no one but you. It was a small price for MSFT to pay for binding their customers to their own applications. Be realistic, MSFT wouldn't lose anything but their monopoly status by divesting the O/S's. They still have ways of making money. I don't know if I'm the only one in the world with this idea, Ritch, but I suspect that there must be at least a few others who have given it consideration.