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

To: earlyj who wrote (33354)	11/9/1999 1:20:00 AM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Of course, what I posted was: Show me the link from gateway.com or dell.com (Show me where i can buy a desktop system without MS-Works or MS-Office SBE. I find no such thing.) This board has selective reading skills such as I've never seen. The FACT is, if you want a PC from Dell (largest PC seller in the WORLD) or from Gateway (largest seller of PCs to the consumer in the WORLD), you are forced to accept either MS-Works, or MS-Office WHETHER YOU WANT THEM OR NOT. No substitutions allowed. Period. End of story. And FURTHERMORE, that fact looks awful suspicious, considering that MSFT has a defacto monopoly in OS for the Intel architecture. What it looks like, is MS is using its "considerable market clout" to shut out competition in other software products, JUST like they did with Explorer (i.e. force Dell and Gateway to ship Explorer, but forbid them "bundling" Netscape). I'm not posting anymore on this subject. Period.