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

To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (41765)	4/11/2000 5:24:00 PM
From: david_si	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

"classic way to kill your competition while leveraging your os monopoly to FORCE folks to pay you money" What proof do you have that the OS costs more because IE is in it? If the OS doesn't have anything besides IE in it that makes it worth a few more dollars, you wouldn't be buying it. Only buy it if you want the new features. That's not a monopoly, that's something that people are buying because they want to. How are you being "forced?"

To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (41765)	4/12/2000 12:32:00 AM
From: TTOSBT	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

I had a discussion at work this evening with a few people who were thinking along the same lines. They claim that MSFT's guild was due to "FORCING" the vendor's to put IE on the desktop and prohibiting the vendor's from putting any other browser -i.e. Netscape's, or pay a higher price for the OS. IMO that's not a crime. If MSFT demanded those vendor's to put IE on any other OS they sold or pay a higher price for MSFT's OS, then I would call that abusing monopoly powers. Can MSFT put it's IE on SUNW's, IBM's, APPLE's, Linux etc. Do they try to demand or persuade the vendor's to? No! I still maintain it's crybabies and blood sucker's trying to gang up on the biggest most creative money maker in history! and that is sad for our government to use our tax dollars to enforce this samurai activity. TTOSBT