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

To: Paul K who wrote (34450)	11/20/1999 12:13:00 AM
From: Paul K	Respond to of 74651

"Microsoft Won't Settle" - Editor, Paul E. Schindler Jr. Winmag.com "...Bill has absolutely no financial incentive to settle. If he wins in court, he keeps what he has and gets to run the company exactly as he always has. If he loses, he wins even bigger. None of the proposed solutions will affect Bill (or any other Microsoft shareholder) negatively. The most popular proposed solutions are a consent decree, putting Windows source code into the public domain, creating a group of "Baby Bills," each of which has all the capabilities of the current Microsoft, or dividing Microsoft up functionally (operating systems, applications, content, for example). Historic precedent for each of these solutions, used variously on Standard Oil, IBM and AT&T, indicates that current shareholders will make out like bandits..." winmag.com