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

To: miraje who wrote (37580)	2/9/2000 4:56:00 PM
From: Frank Ellis Morris	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Bingo!! In a nutshell!! And to the SUNW employees and mouthpieces who parrot the company line on this board, "Chew it, swallow it, digest it". I personally would never invest a nickle in a company that operates this way.<< James the bottom line is that that when ever Microsoft's stock seems to rise a few points a bad article comes out to bring the stock down. Shareholders get fed up with a stock that is not increasing shareholder value. It was rather convenient to have the announcement of EU days before the release of windows 2000. The stock is not the star it used to be because too many stones are constantly being cast against Microsoft. Frank

To: miraje who wrote (37580)	2/9/2000 7:42:00 PM
From: Greg Jung	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Your quotes are from a PR newswire article submitted by Microsoft. It has probably misrepresents the circumstances of the case. Especially prejudicial to its credibility are statements such as this, "Sun complained that the advances in the Windows 2000 desktop and server technology will make it harder for Sun to compete." SOURCE: Microsoft Corp. ========== I predict that this will be the new mantra that is repeated daily by the MS execs. ================ What MS characterizes as "advances" is manifested as a bug for everyone else. ================= Microsoft Faces New Legal Battle With EU Probe By Scott Hillis SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. (NasdaqNM:MSFT - news), already grappling with a U.S. government antitrust lawsuit, faced more legal woes on Wednesday after the European Union launched a probe of the software giant's new $1 billion operating system. The investigation will look at whether Windows 2000 breaks EU competition law by allowing Microsoft to unfairly extend its dominance in personal computers to servers -- the workhorse machines that are the foundation of the Internet and business networks. EU Competition Commissioner Mario Monti said in Brussels that the complaints allege Microsoft bundled the operating system with other software in such a way that only its own products are fully interoperable, and that puts rivals at a disadvantage.