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

To: Frank Ellis Morris who wrote (34626)	11/23/1999 12:25:00 AM
From: Sonny McWilliams	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Frank. I am sure IR at Msft reads a lot of the posts. I heard comments from lots of people today including Msft. One commentator mentioned that it would not be easy for those lawyers to prove that Windows were too expensive. Windows are half as expensive as IBM's OS 2. Msft said they can't understand this charge that their windows are or were too expensive. They mentioned that they have done several improvements to windows over time and did not raise prices. Someone mentioned that those lawyers have to come up with what would have been a fair price or what is a fair price. You just can't pull a number like 49 out of a hat and say that's what it should have been sold for. I heard one commentator say tonight that this settlement talk may include all pending or future claims by lawyers and consumers and it is probably already fig. into Msft's stock price. But that is just one opinion. One fund manager was asked today if it was risky to buy or hold Msft stock with all this stuff going on. He said it was more risky to ones portfolio TO NOT OWN Msft than TO OWN it. He said Windows 2000 will come out soon regardless of what will happen in this case. And even if things don't get settled soon there was plenty money to be made in Msft before anything concrete will come out of all this. Msft suffered after the market closed. It was down 1 in Instinet. BTW. Where was I on Nov. 22nd when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated? I was working in a Lab at the Naval Hospital in Corpus Christi, TX. Never will forget it. I was still a Democrat at that time. Sonny