Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

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

To: Dave who wrote (60486)	8/10/2001 7:52:03 AM
From: werefrog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

"I write Macintosh software for a living and have been doing so for seventeen years" dave post 60328 AHA, no wonder you are so disgruntled. Had you "hired" on at MSFT 17 years ago there would be no need for you to waste your time in the "Work Force". You would have so much of MSFT's "dirty money" by now that you could find constructive pastimes rather than waste your time posting things you dream up in the middle of the night on public bb's. It's yours & AAPL's fault you are a pauper, not MSFT's.

To: Dave who wrote (60486)	8/10/2001 1:56:51 PM
From: Bob Kim	Respond to of 74651

Dave, re: Thanks for reinforcing my point, that it was worth a lot of money to Microsoft to make their no-revenue-earning Internet Explorer the default browser for Mac OS. They were willing to risk sacrificing Office for the Mac to make it happen. I don't think it reinforces your point. Did you ever get Netscape's view (from ZDNet 8/7/97): But the Mountain View, Calif., Internet software company barely blinked at the Apple-Microsoft contract. Browser sales contribute to about 35 percent of Netscape's revenue, but only about 10 percent of customers get their browser through their hardware, Netscape spokeswoman Jennifer O'Mahony said. Most people obtain their browser by downloading it or through a large package of Internet software purchased by their company, O'Mahony said. She downplayed the impact of Microsoft including its browser with new machines made by Apple, whose products account for only about 4 percent of computer sales. "One reason Apple is in its current position is because it hasn't been selling a lot of new products,'' O'Mahony said. The trick for Netscape will be maintaining brand-name recognition among its business users, which account for about 80 percent of the company's revenue.