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

To: ed who wrote (35478)	12/15/1999 1:42:00 AM
From: Chris Abellera	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

From a technical standpoint, MSFT is breaking out of a 5-month base. All the overhead appears to be past us. Let's hope that the Oracle news triggers a tech rally and brings this stock back to 100+. If the market can rally and hold itself together tomorrow, and MSFT can penetrate 101+ on solid volume, we should see follow through to 105 at the close that day. On stock like this, my short-term price target would be around 15-20% above the break point, i.e. 115-120. It may be headed higher, because they may announce another 2-for-1 split if it can reach and hold in that range. The MSFT settlement (if it became true) would be nice, but I'm not holding my breath. My guess for tomorrow, is that the MM's will try to gap the stock up tomorrow at 100 at the open and then try to shake people out in the middle part of the day (98-99), and then close the stock at around 101 in the last hour towards the close. -Chris

To: ed who wrote (35478)	12/15/1999 3:31:00 AM
From: craig crawford	Respond to of 74651

>> Today's volume proved that the settlement is not a rumor but real << Today's price action tells me that it's not imminent. If there really was a deal the stock would've closed up more than 2. I think MSFT was (and still is) just plain ready to go higher. I just wish people were buying MSFT because they think the outlook is great and the stock has gotten cheaper. On the other hand, if traders want to yo-yo the stock and make the premiums skyrocket it can only serve me as I still have half of my X-Mas 100's to unload. I don't intend on selling any of my Jan calls this millennium. Perhaps after the new year.

To: ed who wrote (35478)	12/15/1999 5:50:00 AM
From: puborectalis	Respond to of 74651

Trio Demonstrates World's First Cable-Ready Digital TV Receiver For Premium Cable Services to the PC LOS ANGELES, Dec. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Today at the Western Show, Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT), Philips Semiconductors (NYSE: PHG) and SCM Microsystems Inc. (Nasdaq: SCMM; Frankfurt: SMY) announced a demonstration of the world's first 1394-connected OpenCable receiver for the PC at the Microsoft booth 2311 and the CableNet booth. Together, the three companies will demonstrate technology that will enable cable TV operators to provide premium cable services on the PC. Furthermore, this PC receiver has fully implemented conditional access authentication and descrambling, thereby enabling pay services to be deployed over the digital cable network.

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