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

To: Dave who wrote (60646)	8/16/2001 3:53:24 PM
From: werefrog	Respond to of 74651

bycycle, "Windows XP. Where in Hell do you want us to go today?" just to wise you up on dave 's mentality: "low 40's was a good place to short MSFT" dave post dave - post 55054, Jan 10, 01 "A P/E of 30 is quite generous" dave post dave - post 55379, Jan 19, 01 "smart money is still in shorting tech high-flyers like Microsoft" dave post dave - post 55426. Jan 21, 01 "we'll see MSFT in the mid-twenties this year" dave - post 55684 . Feb 7, 01 "My own money is in 50% government security funds, 15% gold and silver, and 35% Prudent Bear fund (BEARX)." post 57061 Therefore I think you can negate his unholy comment and throw it in the garbage can where it belongs. If you listen to him there is much danger to your bankroll since he has not got even one prediction correct, missing the spring rally when MSFT ran 20 points.

To: Dave who wrote (60646)	8/16/2001 4:09:23 PM
From: QwikSand	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

I am a Sun booster (though not a cheerleader who thinks Sun can do no wrong). I haven't posted on this thread before and probably never will again, since I don't enjoy vapid arguments. But Cringeley's piece deserves a comment. Microsoft has done a lot of slimy things in their time, but making an anticompetitive modification to widely-used software and billing it as a Service Pack may just be a new low (or at least a candidate...there are a lot of contenders). A service pack is supposed to make things better. It's not supposed to make things stop working because the crippled functionality, which may well have been useful to the customer, doesn't fit in with Microsoft's long-term anticompetitive strategy. Service pack? In the service of whom? As Cringely observes, nothing gives the lie to MSFT's incessant, transparent mantra about doing what's good for the customer as effectively as a super-sleaze move like this. I hope the DOJ takes very careful notice of this stealth abuse of monopoly power. It's exactly what the gangsters who run Microsoft are justly infamous for, and convicted of. --QS

To: Dave who wrote (60646)

8/16/2001 4:53:30 PM

From: DiViT

Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 74651

"...Microsoft has dropped standard Netscape-style plugin support ..."

Does Netscape.6 / Mozilla support it?

Components and Plug-ins: mozilla.org

Netscape 6 uses a single archive format to install and update components and files of all kinds. This format, the XPI format, replaces the use of .jar files for SmartUpdates of binaries and .cab files for download of binaries on Internet Explorer 4 and beyond.

Samples of the XPI format can be found at:
ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/netscape6/english/6.0/windows/win32/xpi/.

Also, if you have plug-in content that calls a plug-in's Java API from JavaScript via LiveConnect, be aware that the plug-in vendor must upgrade their plug-in to support the Mozilla Plug-in API. Until then, these JavaScript calls within the content will fail silently. Contact the plug-in vendor to find out their schedule for releasing an upgraded plug-in.

Other excluded elements: mozilla.org