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

To: Dave who wrote (62984)	11/13/2001 8:08:58 PM
From: alydar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

<<Mac Office X users would be surprised to learn that!>> my apologies to all the mac users that use office for mac. i do not know how much that contributes to msft's profits. when i purchased my last pc i was thinking about purchasing a imac but ms office for the imac cost about $500 at the time. this was about 1/2 of what the entire imac cost. also, the only reason i bought a pc (i.e. gateway) was because i needed my word and excel files to be compatible with the companies i do business with. this is what a monopoly does, it restricts choice and i was basically forced to purchase a pc with ms windows and office. obviously, the doj does not care much about consumer choice in this antitrust case. i can only hope that open standards becomes prevelant in the future so i can purchase a internet device based on the benefits it provides me and not the features which are forced upon me. rocky.