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

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (60479)	8/9/2001 7:58:44 PM
From: Dave	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Yes, making Internet Explorer the default browser on Macintoshes was evidently worth $150 million to Microsoft, who had to (1) invest that sum in Apple and (2) threaten to withdraw stop developing Office for Macintosh in order to get Internet Explorer default billing. And that didn't even preclude Apple from bundling Netscape with Macs, just making IE the default. It's worth a lot of money to Microsoft. And not in revenues. In protection of its platform monopoly from the Middleware Threat. Both Jackson and the Appeals Court waxed eloquent about this. I don't know why it's so incomprehensible to Microsoft's avid corps of fans and flag-wavers. Dave