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

To: SunSpot who wrote (40097)	3/29/2000 11:59:00 AM
From: Gerald Walls	Respond to of 74651

Some information, that was required to be delivered electronically to the state, was required to be delivered in MS Word (!). <snip> You should feel lucky, if you have the choice of using Corel WordPerfect. According to the Corel WordPerfect 8 for Linux box (I haven't opened it yet) it imports and exports Word 97 files.

To: SunSpot who wrote (40097)	3/29/2000 9:27:00 PM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

In my company we do not have the choice. You're not saying that Microsoft forces you to buy MS-Office, are you? Someone at your company has a choice of which software to buy. They're just choosing Microsoft. I'm not anti-MSFT as long as their products is an option. Again, I'm confused. If you are referring to your government forcing you to put things in MS-Word format, then that's your government forcing you to do something, not Microsoft forcing you to do something. Could you please clarify precisely when and where Microsoft forces you to buy their products? This is what I am not grasping.