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

To: Hal Rubel who wrote (40690)	4/3/2000 5:02:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

How much pain before the people figure out that the government is dissolving the glue that has held the technological revolution together? How long before AlGore sends a memo to Bill and Janet? Jim

To: Hal Rubel who wrote (40690)	4/3/2000 5:24:00 PM
From: sandeep	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Hal, I disgree about the govt's intention not to micromanage. It is clear that if the govt wants to have a veto on what is integrated into the OS, it will have to micromanage. E.g. - speech recognition - if the OS has to respond to speech, it needs to "bundle" speech reco. Now, if some other company has this technology, they can't make money off it. What can Microsoft do ? Not let the consumers interact with the OS because there is a competing technology or that the govt won't let it integrate the technology ? The OS is a very complex piece of software. Because it interacts with the users all the time with or without their knowledge, it needs to have an increasing number of features to make the interaction better. The govt would not want that to happen...