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

To: jim gasparich who wrote (38438)	2/23/2000 11:27:00 PM
From: Rusty Johnson	Respond to of 74651

The trial IS moot. Opening the source code only helps MSFT. Bugs would get fixed. There would be an incentive for people to keep using the piece of excrement. Linux captured 25% of the server market without a marketing machine behind it because the source code is open and free. Not to mention the fact that it's a reliable and scaleable OS. Breaking the company up would be good for MSFT. They could concentrate on writing code instead of dreaming of ways to threaten and intimidate competitors. They could come up with products of their own instead of making cheap knockoffs. The easy solution is a $20,000,000,000 fine and five years in jail for Bill and Steve. That's where criminals (if found guilty) belong. That being said I hope they get off completely. I don't want Microsoftifarians blaming the DOJ for the stagnation next year of their stock. "Justice delayed is justice denied." The trial took way too long. I don't even believe they are a monopoly. But they have monopoly power. Being able to tell Intel they aren't going to write software is power. usdoj.gov But the trial has had its intended effect. Nobody is intimidated by MSFT anymore. There are better operating systems (Solaris, Linux, BeOS and Mac OS X to name four) and equivalent office suites. This one's free: sun.com Just give me Excel for Linux. Put StarOffice or Applixware on a Linux OS with Netscape Navigator and you'll never go back to a MSFT product. Wait until IA-64 comes around. Linux is the only OS that will be ready. MSFT will still keep a large installed base of desktop users. Nobody is going to "bury" them. But the world has moved on. There are many more cell phones than PCs. MSFT should have spent more of their ill gotten gains on Windows CE. Your money will grow much faster in CSCO, JDSU, CIEN, CMTN, SWCM ... that's all I'm saying. Plot ERICY, PHCM and AMAT vs. MSFT for the last year. MSFT prospering only helps my property value. It just looks like everyone's catching on to their mediocre products and heavy handed business practices. Just glad that Microsoft Hotmail and Silicon Investor run on Linux. Good luck.