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

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (67388)	4/16/2002 5:01:55 AM
From: dybdahl	Respond to of 74651

Remember IBM in the 1980's. Compare with Microsoft today, and you will find that Microsoft might change itself. The days of 100% control is over. CrossOver Office proves this, because Microsoft MUST stay backwards compatible (Linux is), so Microsoft will automatically also be Linux compatible to a certain degree, that grows and grows. Even .net might be binary mono compatible. There are many reasons to get a Linux kernel, but the best one is: customer demand. Being Linux compatible is something that people will demand, and if Microsoft doesn't provide it, it's another thing to make their products inferior. You can argue that Microsoft will just empty its cash cows for money and then shut down. I don't believe that. They will try and make the best out of it, and just as they support 3,%" diskettes, IDE, USB, even VL-bus and a lot of other stuff, they will support the Linux kernel. Btw - I wouldn't wonder if they already own a company that has their own Linux distribution. It would be impossible for Microsoft to buy other companies in the future if they don't want to own Linux technology. SUNW has their own Linux distribution - it's called Cobalt Linux. Dybdahl.