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

To: David Howe who wrote (67199)	4/12/2002 4:19:15 PM
From: jonkai	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

MSFT invests time and money to invent a product that will benefit the consumer.. name one product that MSFT "invented" or even imagined by themselves, without stealing it from some other company, copying it, or buying it outright............ and here is what MSFT did to INTC last time INTC tried to create a product that would benefit the consumer...... from the appeals ruling.... and i quote.... WORD FOR WORD below...... course then D of URL will cry that this must be a lie and this can't exist because it is contrary to his head burying activities.... after all, how could MSFT actually be able to do this to INTC? how could any company in their right mind think they could get away with this without getting their head handed to them in a court sometime in the future? you investors in MSFT are all burying your head to what is about to happen to MSFT.... they have committed the most aggrevise things they could do to our form of capitalism, and they will pay dearly in the market place for it..... either through our justice system, or companies like INTC retaliating....... d. The threat to Intel The District Court held that Microsoft also acted unlawful- ly with respect to Java by using its "monopoly power to prevent firms such as Intel from aiding in the creation of cross-platform interfaces." Conclusions of Law, at 43. In 1995 Intel was in the process of developing a high- performance, Windows-compatible JVM. Microsoft wanted Intel to abandon that effort because a fast, cross-platform JVM would threaten Microsoft's monopoly in the operating system market. At an August 1995 meeting, Microsoft's Gates told Intel that its "cooperation with Sun and Netscape to develop a Java runtime environment ... was one of the issues threatening to undermine cooperation between Intel and Microsoft." Findings of Fact p 396. Three months later, "Microsoft's Paul Maritz told a senior Intel executive that Intel's [adaptation of its multimedia software to comply with] Sun's Java standards was as inimical to Microsoft as Microsoft's support for non-Intel microprocessors would be to Intel." Id. p 405. Intel nonetheless continued to undertake initiatives related to Java. By 1996 "Intel had developed a JVM designed to run well ... while complying with Sun's cross-platform stan- dards." Id. p 396. In April of that year, Microsoft again urged Intel not to help Sun by distributing Intel's fast, Sun- compliant JVM. Id. And Microsoft threatened Intel that if it did not stop aiding Sun on the multimedia front, then Microsoft would refuse to distribute Intel technologies bun- dled with Windows. Id. p 404. Intel finally capitulated in 1997, after Microsoft delivered the coup de grace. [O]ne of Intel's competitors, called AMD, solicited sup- port from Microsoft for its "3DX" technology.... Mi- crosoft's Allchin asked Gates whether Microsoft should support 3DX, despite the fact that Intel would oppose it. Gates responded: "If Intel has a real problem with us supporting this then they will have to stop supporting Java Multimedia the way they are. I would gladly give up supporting this if they would back off from their work on JAVA." Id. p 406. Microsoft's internal documents and deposition testimony confirm both the anticompetitive effect and intent of its actions. See, e.g., GX 235, reprinted in 22 J.A. at 14502 (Microsoft executive, Eric Engstrom, included among Micro- soft's goals for Intel: "Intel to stop helping Sun create Java