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

To: PJ Strifas who wrote (48908)	9/1/2000 11:37:29 AM
From: ericneu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

"Internally when Windows 2000 was announced, people were told not to even think about using it for production because it was too unstable," says this ex-Microsoftie. --- Well, people will believe what they want to believe. Here's a fact to counter that rumor - from microsoft.com : Microsoft is running its enterprise on Windows 2000 Professional, Windows 2000 Server and Windows 2000 Advanced Server. In fact, Microsoft is running over 75,000 workstations on Windows 2000 Professional and over 2,000 servers on Windows 2000 Server and Windows 2000 Advanced Server. In addition, 90 key line-of-business applications across the company are running successfully today on Windows 2000 Advanced Server, including the Microsoft Web site, microsoft.com; - Eric

To: PJ Strifas who wrote (48908)	9/1/2000 1:00:11 PM
From: Rusty Johnson	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74651

A Harsh Court Ruling Could Open New Antitrust Front Against Microsoft By JOHN R. WILKE Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WASHINGTON -- A federal judge found that Microsoft Corp. engaged in "wanton, reckless" and deceptive business practices against a Connecticut software maker, in a harsh ruling reminiscent of the court's finding against Microsoft in the government's antitrust suit. U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in Bridgeport, Conn., ordered Microsoft to pay punitive damages of $1 million to Bristol Technology Inc., in the highest award ever imposed under the state's fair-trade statute. After a six-week civil trial last year, a federal jury found that Microsoft had violated Connecticut's unfair-trade practices act, but awarded Bristol damages of just $1.