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

To: sandeep who wrote (44034)	5/1/2000 1:55:00 PM
From: SunSpot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Thank you for reminding me of missing the point. I will do you the favor, and remind you of the same. The point you have missed is, that the Windows company will deliver an OS that is customizable. Until the changes have been completed, it will run with the current software licensed free from the Application company. Remember that the Application company will have all the rights and all the code to deliver a solution bundled with Windows (!) that looks exactly like Windows does today. The only differences are: - Other companies may make the Windows OS look much different with a different look and feel. - It is the duty of the Windows company to make the OS so modular, that applications from the Apps company can coexist with other vendors, including the HTML engines from other vendors. As far as I see it, there is no problem with Next Generation Windows Services and this split. NGWS belongs to the apps company, and it is up to the Windows company to make their platform the most competitive delivering NGWS. So if you like the Microsoft way, you just continue buying your software from the Apps company. And if you would like to run your Windows apps on a Netscape HTML based system, customized by IBM, then you buy IBM software. A lot like today, just without interference of the DOJ. Besides a name change, I don't think most people will recognize, that MS Office and MS Windows are from separate companies.