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

To: Uncle Frank who wrote (63267)	11/23/2001 6:53:39 PM
From: Dave	Respond to of 74651

But don't forget that any American's investment in Microsoft's ability to get away with illegally leveraging its existing monopolies in order to monopolize new markets would be an investment in the failure of our judicial system. Dave 1

To: Uncle Frank who wrote (63267)	11/23/2001 7:28:02 PM
From: David Howe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

<< Don't forget Office. I believe it's their biggest cash cow >> Correct, MSFT makes more money on Office than they do on Windows. Quite a bit more. Dave

To: Uncle Frank who wrote (63267)	11/23/2001 7:47:01 PM
From: Dave	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

UF, While that is true (assuming that it is), Office does not represent a "growth" market, instead a stable revenue stream every couple of years. I guess what I was trying to say is that the PC market, in general, has stablized from a high growth era, to a maturing market. Therefore, SW programs that run on the PC are not going to contribute to high growth. Instead, with MSFT attacking the gaming market, MSFT can continue to grow. One question, and I am thinking aloud, the xbox, technically, is a PC since it possesses an x86 class uP (i.e. Celeron 7xx MHz), an NVDIA GPU and ram. I wonder if there will be patches out so that people can play xbox games on their PC? Can the xbox convert those people in the gaming sector of the PC market to purchase an xbox?