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

To: cheryl williamson who wrote (34336)	11/19/1999 2:28:00 PM
From: J. P.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

<<Perhaps MSFT could give up Windows & NT desktop to the public and retain NT server for sale on PC & non-PC devices.>> Microsoft makes something like 40% of their revenue from the sale of NT and Windows. You're asking them to just give that up? You're talking about billions of dollars. So by extension of your logic, the penalty for having the skill/good fortune to achieve ubiquity in a market is having to give it away for free. The more I read stuff like this, the more I hope that Microsoft fights this thing and wins, or ties it up long enough to make it even more irrelevant than it already is.

To: cheryl williamson who wrote (34336)	11/19/1999 3:24:00 PM
From: William Hunt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

cheryl ---sounds logical ---anyway of breaking the logjam ---I sure hope both sides and their ego's are not lock into the point that viable options are not being explored . With all the rhetoric being espouse you have to find a way both sides can save face or either wait until Jeb Bush comes to the rescue BEST WISHES BILL PS By the way I agree with the principle issue that is espoused on the thread but would rather make money than talk about the issue ---"Greed is good "