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

To: William Chaney who wrote (33656)	11/10/1999 4:12:00 PM
From: Gerald Walls	Respond to of 74651

Under a OS/APP breakup structure, the MS-OS company could put anything it wanted into the OS. However, it would have the incentive to negotiate equally with the MS applications company (MS-App) and other companies for such items. In this example, the MS-OS company would go to Netscape, Spyglass, and MS-App and say, "We want to incorporate a browser in our OS. What kind of deal can we work out?" These companies would then decide how much to charge MS-OS. And if MS-OS in the end decided to write their own from scratch that they would distribute freely with the OS, then what? Does the Department of inJustice get involved again and two years later we find out if they can?