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

To: David Howe who wrote (41708)	4/10/2000 4:57:00 PM
From: johnd	Respond to of 74651

Motorola and others have started reporting good earnings. Wall street will catch up on MSFT. Timing exactly when is hard to tell.

To: David Howe who wrote (41708)	4/10/2000 5:06:00 PM
From: John F.	Respond to of 74651

Not sure David. We are just going to have to wait and see what the actual DOJ remedy is anyway.

To: David Howe who wrote (41708)	4/10/2000 5:17:00 PM
From: abbigail	Respond to of 74651

Dear Mr Howe: "Under the proposal, the government would force Microsoft (MSFT: news, msgs) to grant royalty-free licenses to the product, opening its secret underlying software code to customers and computer makers, the paper said..." This sounds like a doj plan: a SNAFU if you know. So Softee gives away IE Version X.1. Then what happens to Version X.2, OR Version Y.1 which includes voice recognition, etc etc? Or maybe jj, klien and reno should take programming 101 at the local community college, so they can advise what is permissible to improve IE. We are being held hostage by tyrants, AND DUMB ONES. jj is prosecutor, judge, and executioner, and dumb. abbigail <: [

To: David Howe who wrote (41708)	4/10/2000 5:18:00 PM
From: RGM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Passing by after buying some MSFT at 86.5 today. Do you know of anyone who has actually paid to have the IE software program. Not I. I am sure a few people have actually bought this program. The government is attempting to be tough on MSFT, but bu opening up and making available the IE source code to other developers will definitely increase the usage of IE, of course, in conjunction with other MSFT products. I view is as a free "door opener" to get people into using MSFT products. In the meantime, Gates is diversifying his empire by buying equity positions with related services and products while, at the same time, saying they are strictly a software company. In my opinion, in a few more years, this company products and services shall be so diverse that it shall easily outdo GE in this strategy. The best thing for me is that I hope more people do some more panic selling so that I may be able to buy more MSFT in the 70's and low 80's. Inform me if I am totally crazy re the above thoughts.