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

To: pagejack who wrote (35077)	12/5/1999 5:36:00 PM
From: ed	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Can you give me someore details about : 1) What is your definition of monopoly in the IT industry? and bsed on that definition, why do you think Microsoft own a monopoly !!!! 2) After you prove that Microsoft owns monopoly on certain products in certain market during a certain time frame, could you pls give further details ( examples) to show us that Microsoft abuse its monopoly power to hurt the consumers !!! Pls be specific !!! Thanks !!

To: pagejack who wrote (35077)	12/5/1999 6:01:00 PM
From: Harry Sharp	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

As I remember, and someone please correct me if I'm wrong, the original IBM PC (1981) offered a choice of two operating systems. DEC's CPM used by Apple and Tandy and, for which thousands of applications were available, was available at $495. Or for $89 you could buy MS DOS 1.0. Even though there wasn't much software for it I recall that initially MS DOS outsold CPM on 7 out of 10 IBM's sold. Sounds like DEC tried to take advantage of monopoly power and the marketplace voted against them. BTW, this was before hard disks were available, just single sided floppies with 180kb capacity. In any case people have always bought Microsoft products because they have either been the price leader or the quality leader and often both.