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

To: Insitu who wrote (42806)	4/21/2000 4:19:00 PM
From: TTOSBT	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Re: "Mehrdad, Don't you understand that MSFT cannot legally compete the way everyone else does. There are a different set of rules for companies with a monopoly. That is the law. As for the pool of talent, it remains to be seen what happens to that pool if they no longer have in-the-money options to keep them at MSFT. " Question. If MSFT were split up into 3-5 different companies would each of those companies be considered a monopoly and would they be relieved of the monopolistic laws? And could it be possible that each different company operate the same way the old non-monopolistic MSFT did to become a monopoly? And wouldn't that mean that all their competitors will now have 3-5 times as many aggressive competitors? TTOSBT