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

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (60188)7/27/2001 7:38:18 PM
From: nommedeguerre  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 74651
 
Charles,

"It's rather delicious to see the tables turned."

What's important is that Compaq is free to design and market products the way they feel best suits their prospective clientele. It only makes sense to incorporate AOL since they are more likely to provide support for any Linux machines Compaq sells thereby providing a continuity of services on both platforms that is not possible with Microsoft products alone. Those customers who prefer the less popular MSN can of course always download the software required and configure it themselves; a simple process I'm sure.

Cheers,
Norm



To: Charles Tutt who wrote (60188)7/27/2001 8:25:00 PM
From: Dave  Respond to of 74651
 
And for $4.00 per box, Compaq or any other Windows OEM can preinstall QuickTime Pro, which would save their customers $29.95 each. Of course, were it not for this antitrust trial, which MSFT's apologists still claim was a big boondoggling waste of taxpayers' money with no consumer benefit, Compaq still would not be allowed to do this kind of thing.

Dave


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