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

To: t2 who wrote (58416)	5/24/2001 11:33:42 PM
From: Prognosticator	Respond to of 74651

You can bet if the world is running on Microsoft software, the Chinese companies will end up doing the same. They will have to if they want to set up operations in other parts of world. Cost of NOT running on the world standard would put them at a competitive disadvantage...compatibility issues etc The world is running on the Internet, and that because the standards there have always been open. Microsoft has been playing catch-up with the Internet, and is still behind. If you want a real eye-opener, go and read some of the UNIX source code from circa 1985. Still way ahead of the Microsoft operating system. .NyET is Microsoft's latest feeble attempt to proprietarize the Internet, and it will fail because there is too much other software which won't follow the Microsoft 'standard'. XML and Java have far more influence on e-commerce now than .NyET will ever have. IMO the Chinese will develop their own Linux derived operating system: it's not rocket science at this stage, and no matter how hard Microsoft tries, they will never be a Chinese company. There is simply too much money at stake for the Chinese Government not to do this, unless they can continue to use Microsoft software at no cost. And the evolution of the Chinese market will be different to that of the US market, they will likely move straight to broadband/wireless internet connected devices more akin to the SunRay than the PC: why not, they have nothing to lose, and can bypass the client-centric disconnected time-waster that has been the PC 'revolution'. P.