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

To: werefrog who wrote (57652)	4/26/2001 6:09:39 PM
From: t2	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

How times have changed in the ---AOL/ Microsoft relationship. I have hi-lited the key comments. To me it looks like Microsoft is calling the shots. What a comeback for this company after a couple of years of caving in to such companies. All of the comments in this article tells me how strong Microsoft is ...today!! It is the Microsoft spokesman that says they do not have obligations to each other. I know why I am long Microsoft. Thursday April 26, 5:55 pm Eastern Time AOL May Not Be in New Windows Dispute Over New Contract Means AOL May Not Be in New Version of Windows By ALLISON LINN AP Business Writer SEATTLE (AP) -- A marriage of convenience between AOL Time Warner Inc. [NYSE:AOL - news] and Microsoft Corp. (NasdaqNM:MSFT - news) could come to an end if the two companies cannot agree on a new contract. Microsoft spokesman Jim Cullinan confirmed the two companies' five-year contractual relationship ended Jan. 1, and that no new contract has been signed. He said the two companies currently have no obligation to each other. Under the terms of the expired contract, Microsoft agreed to pre-install AOL Internet service into its Windows desktops in exchange for AOL agreeing to use Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser. Neither Cullinan nor AOL spokesman Jim Whitney would comment on any current discussions between the companies. The current prerelease version of Windows XP, the next version of Microsoft's personal computer operating system, does not include AOL or any other third-party applications on the desktop, Cullinan said. He declined to say whether the final version of the product, scheduled to be released this fall, would include AOL. Microsoft has provided AOL with the technological information it needs to make the company's Internet service software compatible with XP, something it does for most major products that people often run with Windows. A source close to AOL, who would speak only on condition of anonymity, said AOL is working to make its product compatible with XP. The latest version of AOL's Internet service includes the Internet Explorer browser. Although AOL now owns Netscape, the company has not made any major moves to solely use the Netscape browser. biz.yahoo.com