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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (101998)	4/4/2000 4:06:00 PM
From: that_crazy_doug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579988

<< What benefit comes from breaking up MSFT have other than maybe making shareholders richer down the line? OTOH, ATT agreed to be broken up...MSFT hasn't as yet. >> In that respect, what would you care if you're a shareholder ;) If you break up microsoft they'll relinquish some control of all the standards. They'll have to cooperate with someone else (at least the other microsoft companies) on standards between the os and the applications. Also, they won't be as able to successfully leverage existing power to dominate new markets and crush competition with marketing and integration. Do you really think IE would have 70% of the market share if it wasn't integrated into windows 95/98? Netscape had 90% of the share before that. If microsoft applications was a seperate company, their compiler wouldn't have to be tied to windows. They'd be tempted to make visual studio a linux/apple/windows product, and they'd be less likely to try and stop interoperability between operating systems. Even if they don't make it for other systems, they no longer have any underlying reason to go out of their way to destroy the open standards.