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

To: Exacctnt who wrote (40300)	4/2/2000 4:32:00 AM
From: William C. Spaulding	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Ever hear of productivity? Better products? Better marketing? Better service? Lower overhead? There are countless reasons why a company can raise prices or charge more in a competitive environment. Is Microsoft more productive? How? Better products? Not really. I think in many ways WordPerfect is better than Office. I've worked extensively in both. While it is true that IE is better than Netscape, that's only because Microsoft could use hundreds of millions of dollars from their monopoly to finance their browser development. Better Service? Did you ever try to get service from Microsoft? The only reason Microsoft can charge more is simply because they now have the monopoly. They have pricing power, the true hallmark of a monopoly. Ever wonder where Microsoft is getting all of its money? From you, the consumer, whose paying excessively high prices because Microsoft no longer has to worry about the competition. I must have missed this freebie. Microsoft office was missing on my Compaq and Hewlett Packard computers. How can I get my free copy? That's what I pointed out in my article. Microsoft no longer gives Office away. They don't have to. Their monopoly is established. That's the goal of predatory pricing. To be able to milk the consumer after the competition is subdued. (Office is still installed on some new systems, but not like in years past. If you look at ads in old computer magazines, you'd see exactly what I am talking about.)