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

To: John F. Dowd who wrote (41212)	4/6/2000 1:44:00 AM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74651

If they want Windows and Corel then they take Windows w/o Office Suite and forego the discounts. I see the OS and applications as two different markets. Clearly when MS bundles the OS and the app suite together for "one low price", they are leveraging their dominate OS position to gain monopoly in another market. Classic tying of products by a monopoly, and illegal under the Sherman Anti-trust act, IMLO (In My Lowly Opinion). Furthermore, when the OEM makes the decision to accept this deal, consumers are getting screwed out of a choice. Don't get me wrong, I am a big Win9x fan, and always have been. But, I would like to see more competition and choice in the app suite market, but MS and their exclusionary deals make it difficult for consumers to have a real choice. Sooner or later, Corel is going to be driven into Chapter 11. When you have Corel selling a suite that is every bit as good (and sometimes better) as the MS suite, AND Corel's has always been markedly cheaper than the MS Suite in the stores, you know something is fishy when there is only one national PC OEM which offers the Win/Corel system (sans MS app suite). Very fishy.