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

To: John F. Dowd who wrote (33501)	11/9/1999 6:29:00 PM
From: Edward Boghosian	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Microsoft never innovates. It adjusts others innovations.

To: John F. Dowd who wrote (33501)	11/9/1999 8:54:00 PM
From: Charles T. Russell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

I never said that they were guilty of anything. The modern desktop OS industry, began somewhat competitively with Apple Dos, CPM, CPM86, MSDos, TRSDos, OS/9, Xenix, Topview, Vision, Windows, The Mac/Lisa Interface etc., However, almost 18 years later, it is left with only one truly dominant player MS. MS Windows 3.0 emerged in 1991ish? By the time Win95/Win NT 3.5 came out four years later Microsoft was on top. There really hasn't been a single UI innovation on the x86 platforms since the 1991 timeframe. Nine years of new icons, a few new features a pretty much the same old song. Up until about 1994, the consumer was benefiting from the emerging monopoly. Now the desktop OS, a pretty stale commodity, is only showing small incremental changes from revision to revision. Most Win32 releases for the last 5 years are just bundled bug fixes. Win2000 desktop contains very few 'New/Innovative' features. MS will utlimately be the big winner in the cost savings derived from migrating to a singelton code set, not the consumer. The OS market is stagnating, just as the communication markets stagnated before the break-up of AT&T. Let MS spin of the OS division. The consumer will benefit. The shareholder will benefit. Ultimately the computer industry will benefit.