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

To: keithsha who wrote (49461)	9/17/2000 2:11:52 AM
From: Charles Tutt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

I don't think anybody here has mentioned the MSN overbilling problem. What a screwup! Why would they even be testing with such charges unless they have some plans of enacting them? And why do the testing with live accounts?

To: keithsha who wrote (49461)	9/18/2000 11:33:57 AM
From: dybdahl	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 74651

VERY nice post. I see one big difference between now and then. When Windows 3.0 hit the road, MS-DOS was a very stable OS. If the DOS program running on top of it was well-made, nothing would crash the PC, and it would be very, very easy to install and handle. Today, people expect software to be more stable and even easier to handle - it just isn't. Unix technologies suddenly have a stability record that Microsoft cannot ignore. With Mac OS X, the Linux community etc., Microsoft also has a marketing problem. With Microsoft.Net, it seems that Microsoft wants to bet it's future on being a programming tool provider, setting the protocol standards and delivering the best programming tools. Unfortunately, they have never been best in these areas, and the competition is much fiercer than in the OS scene. When Delphi for Linux comes out, it will be hard to market a programming tool, that hasn't been ported to Linux. But on the other hand, the product named "Microsoft Linux" cannot be much further away than 2-5 years.