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

To: lin luo who wrote (40945)	4/4/2000 12:01:00 AM
From: Urlman	Respond to of 74651

Subject 21009

To: lin luo who wrote (40945)	4/4/2000 12:32:00 AM
From: TigerPaw	Respond to of 74651

too many sunny days Well, I do have an overabundance of freckles... It just seems that the whole economy is based on Microsoft because of the general timing of the ongoing market correction on nervous investors after a big runup. global economy ... weakness in the US Not to worry, the changeover to the digital age is somewhere between just begun and middle age. My insite comes from 25 years of software development. I have been familiar with Microsoft (and much of the rest of the industry) since I first corresponded with them about programming ideas on my Commodore PET (which had a Microsoft operating system). I've been a great proponent of their software since I got my first IBM PC-XT and convinced the company I was working for to drop the CPM development for PC software. It's just that in that time I also saw many good companies get squashed by the tactics. I witness up front and personal the smashing of OS/2, the usurption of 3com networking followed by the same demise of Lantastic, and perhaps biggest of all, the endless "innovations" designed to run Borland out of business. Not every good programmer in America works for Microsoft and given the chance the software industry could dwarf the hot fields of wireless, storage, fiber, and other hot areas. TP (in case you wonder, yes I could have worked for Microsoft but I did not want to move to the northwest).