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

To: cheryl williamson who wrote (46659)	6/14/2000 2:40:00 PM
From: David Howe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Cheryl, Why are all of your posts so ill-formatted? (ie. sharply down the left side of the page) Is it because you aren't using Microsoft software?

To: cheryl williamson who wrote (46659)	6/14/2000 3:33:00 PM
From: david_si	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

"The real consumer harm has come in the form of product quality (lack of), and false or misleading statements from M$FT about what their products would do." In that case, I've been harmed more by the bugs of other companies, in some circumstances. In addition, where's the thinclient write-once-run-anywhere promise that Sun gave the world? Is the OS monopoly case, the point I've never understood is how they have a monopoly if I can buy an OS from Apple, IBM, Sun, Redhat, or Caldera that does what I need. How is that a monopoly? Sincerely. David

To: cheryl williamson who wrote (46659)	6/14/2000 8:22:00 PM
From: Tom C	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

cheryl, First, M$FT has always had a monopoly in PC O/S's. Once they signed on w/IBM back in the early 80's everyone who licensed an INTC-based desktop platform automatically licensed "PC-DOS", which belonged of course to M$FT. It was an exclusive deal. Say what? The first PC I ordered for my work were PC/AT (8 Mhz) machines. Up until then we were programming Z60/CP\M machines. I was offered PC DOS or IBM XENIX on the new AT's. Do you always just make stuff up? I used IBM XENIX for several systems later converting them to SCO XENIX and then SCO UNIX System 5. Apple had most of the home market. IBM had most of the business market. Maybe you should contain your hallucinations to the SUNW thread where hallucinations are the norm. Tom