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

To: Dave who wrote (67380)	4/16/2002 1:50:07 AM
From: Rusty Johnson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Justice delayed ... justice denied. It doesn't matter to me what happens with the DOJ. The horse has left the barn. Besides MSFT gave us a fat, bald guy prancing around a stage like a frat boy at a free kegger. Now THAT's good humor. Money can't BUY that. Having had 401K money embezzled by a job shop (five year lawsuit ... don't know if Ralph ever did a night in prison even though he plead guilty) and another shop break U.S. labor laws (Dept of Labor declined to prosecute) ... I lost faith in the justice system a long time ago. Without penalties there are no incentives for companies to obey the law. MSFT just raised it to an art form. But there is finally some amazing INNOVATION going on out there. Watching the Simpson's on TiVo. Slow motion of "girls jumping on trampolines". I like it. An Apple GUI on top of UNIX. I WANT some of that! Excel running on Linux. Very cool. A lot of open source work going on. MSFT is doomed. They'll have to come up with Microsoft Unix to compete. Maybe Micro(sUe)NIX. Now if I can just land a job ... I might get my hands on a G4 Powerbook. Delayed ... but not denied. Best of luck. Microsoft ... got TOAST?

To: Dave who wrote (67380)	4/16/2002 3:37:53 AM
From: dybdahl	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

The main problem for Microsoft is that every new product takes many years to deploy. Right now, Office 97 is the most widely deployed Office suite, and Office 2000 is probably getting closer. But Office XP is still nonexistent in terms of deployment. License sales might be something else. This means that Linux runs the most widely used Office suite from Microsoft around, and will do so for at least 2-4 years. By then, Office XP might also run on Linux, extending this period with a couple of years. If Microsoft wants to change this, they would have to lower the price for new Office versions a lot (a lot more than 50%). And they won't do that. Remember, that StarOffice 5.2 competes with Office 97, OpenOffice.org 1.0 competes with Office 2000 and Red Hat Linux 7.2 competes with Windows 2000 and Windows 98. There is no computer that I use, that doesn't run the latest Linux version. Including a Pentium Pro 200MHz that I use at one of my customers - it's too easy and free to upgrade. And there is not a single computer anywhere in my professional life that uses Windows XP. There are lots of Windows 98/NT4/2000 and a few Windows Mes around, but no XP. Our nuclear powerplant doesn't use it, Nestlé doesn't use it, danish postal organization doesn't use it, the internet providers I support don't use it, our local governments don't use it etc. I simply don't see it anywhere. Dybdahl.