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

To: dav who wrote (43818)	4/28/2000 5:45:00 PM
From: TTOSBT	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

I say we the people should break up the bullshit government this November! Get rid of the self proclaimed experts of our rights. Get the dam DOJ out of our faces. Send this inane government a message to keep their slimy hands out of our pockets! Klein just said that DOJ does not want to effect the stock price or share holders of MSFT. Where has this idiot been for the past 2 years? He doesn't even realize his office has something to do with MSFT stock price??? Heaven help us this nut is getting paid for his ineptness!!! I think MSFT has it made with an appeal no worries with the future just load up and wait this is a gift. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! TTOSBT

To: dav who wrote (43818)	4/28/2000 5:47:00 PM
From: John	Respond to of 74651

See next post... (EOM)

To: dav who wrote (43818)	4/28/2000 5:49:00 PM
From: John	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Yeah, it's an unfortunate mess. The U.S. Justice Department is lead by misguided, self serving zealots. There is one simple reason why Microsoft has evolved in the way it has, and that reason is this: Simplicity for consumers. Remember the days back in the mid 80's when you had Windows 3.0 and MS-DOS on your home computer, PC-DOS on your primary computer at work, MS-DOS on a second computer at work, and perhaps the Macintosh OS or UNIX OS on a third computer at work? It was a nightmare. It took a lot of effort for many people to master mulitple systems. The command that made text become bold in Wordperfect, did something entirely different in Peach Text. File sharing was (and still is) very difficult. These were challenging problems. The eventual emergence of a dominant OS like Windows 95 coupled with a complimentary set of productivity tools like MS Office was born out of necessity NOT illegal practices by Microsoft that are alleged to have caused consumers grave harm. Is Microsoft a Saint when it comes to its business practices? I doubt it, but even if they are it is immaterial to me. No one has EVER placed a gun to my head and told me, "you MUST use Microsoft's products," nor have I been prevented from installing Linux or Netscape on my PC. I choose to use their products of my own free will because it's the easiest solution for me. I don't want to take the time necessary to learn and master multiple operating systems and multiple application suites. It's wasted time in my view. If someone invents a better wheel that warrants me changing my operating system and changing the application suite I have chosen, then I will, but it had damn well better be a much better product. This case is about the government lashing out at one person, Bill Gates, because he amassed a few dollars and gained a little power. I'm ashamed of our elected leaders and of the Justice department. If they (Justice Department) aren't murdering people in Texas and Idaho, or kidnapping children in Florida, they are undermining the finacial stability of the U.S. economy, including everyone reading this. What is the lesson in all of this? Maybe someone smarter than me can show me what is to be learned here. Intelligent comments are appreciated. John

To: dav who wrote (43818)	4/28/2000 7:51:00 PM
From: SunSpot	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 74651

You should read the document. Their plan is not to split it up in a way, that only makes one company able to use a technology. All common technologies and intellectual properties between Windows and Applications will belong to MSFT Apps, but licensed freely to MSFT Windows. What they want to do is: - MSFT Apps will be the real successor of Microsoft. All real properties go into that company, and they will stay competitive, they are just getting independent of the Windows platform. Things will work as usual, but other companies will have the same access to the Windows platform. Since everybody has the same access to the Windows platform, there will be no benefit in only developing for Windows, and therefore I think it will be most likely that we see MSFT apps on more platforms than today. - MSFT Windows will be a platform company, trying to deliver a better platform than Apple. It will not kill MSFT and it will not make MSFT products less integrated. MSFT may have a hard time on the stocks, but it will survive and get running again. By the way, to the list: Do you trust Ballmer, or don't you? I remember both "Microsoft will not be broken up", "PE should be 25".