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

To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (43271)	4/24/2000 6:44:00 PM
From: Gerald Walls	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Intel has already been looked at, and passed over, by the DOJ. Intel is a kindler, gentler monopolist. No, like I said before INTC bowed and groveled to the bully and voluntarily agreed to certain changes (I don't remember any details). This is far different than being "passed over".

To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (43271)	4/24/2000 7:06:00 PM
From: Marc Albert	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Jacob, Very well put. One of Microsoft's biggest problems is their arrogance and belief that they are untouchable. A little humility and compromise would have gone a long way and perhaps prevented some of these losses by their investors. Ballmer should have been buried somewhere inside the company and not allowed to speak to anyone on the outside. He has demonstrated many times his bungling PR ineptitude by his many pompous foolish statements. Microsoft should have hired a very good PR person to guide them, along with the many lawyers they retained, when this case first started. All with hindsight of course <grin>. -Marc