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

To: Hal Rubel who wrote (41153)	4/4/2000 7:28:00 PM
From: Larry Sullivan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Well Hal your thoughts of the following - They made it impossible to install Windows without it, and almost impossible to uninstall. To add icing to their cake, most versions of IE just flatly refused to even download most versions of Communicator would differ from the judges because in fact this is the one area of the governments case he rejected due to 160 million copies of Netscape being distributed. So this idea of your was not even supported in the findings. Also this judges ruling is full of rhetoric and erroneous "FACTS". For instance take the following from page 12 of the ruling *"With respect to the latter assertion, Internet Explorer is not demonstrably the current "best of breed" Web browser, nor is it likely to be so at any time in the immediate future."* This is demonstrably false in that IE won 9 out of 10 reviews. Even if you prefer Navigator you have to admit that IE is one of the best of breed - i.e. a very competitive product. Larry...