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

To: sandeep who wrote (45423)	5/26/2000 12:47:00 AM
From: JC Jaros	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

What "non-popular OSes" are you talking about? --- M$ writes IE for UNIX. M$ also spent a big wad of profits on a Unix<->nix app company recently. --- You're saying things that just aren't true. --- Corel's problems stem nearly entirely from declining WINDOWS office product market share. I think most reasonable people would agree that WordPerfect and the WP Suite is of a competitive quality to Microsoft's Suite. Certainly moreso than the market share allows. Corel isn't writing Unix programs. They are using an emulation layer of sorts (WINE) to make their legacy Win32 code stuff work on nix without HAVING to re-write. You'll note that they've gotten so good at hunting down the ever changing Windows API, they're able to put that knowledge to good and provide aid in getting Windows applications to run on *nix. -JCJ

To: sandeep who wrote (45423)	5/26/2000 10:39:00 AM
From: Art Bechhoefer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Sandeep, you stated, "The fact is that writing app software for non-popular OSes is not profitable." But you forgot the rest of the sentence: . . . is not profitable if it draws customers away from Windows, which has the biggest profit margin of any PC software ever developed. That's undoubtedly what you meant, isn't it? As to M$ writing app software for Apple, this was the result of a deal between the two companies. Apple agreed to drop its lawsuit against M$ for what it claimed was copyright infringement. M$ in turn agreed to release its office software for the Macintosh. Please note also that the testimony provided in the antitrust case shows that M$ had already written and packaged its office software for the Macintosh, BUT WITHHELD IT UNTIL APPLE AGREED TO DROP ITS LAWSUIT. That's another example of why the government solution to break up M$ is too good for M$. Let them do the right thing on their own, without any help from outside regulators. They would have done it long ago, were it not for the slightly inflated ego of the richest man in the world.