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

To: John F. Dowd who wrote (67431)	4/16/2002 3:23:42 PM
From: David Howe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

JFD, << Do you have any rebuttal to these valid points. >> These people don't have rebuttals, they have one goal and it's a goal that they will pursue despite the impact to the consumer, the IT industry, the US economy and eventually the world economy. The State AG's are paid to ignore the good of all mankind in order to damage one of the greatest companies ever. They don't seem to care if the IT industry is bludgeoned with $60 billion in increased development costs. They don't care if standardization is demolished and that sets back the PC business 20 years. They don't care if the consumer ends up paying more money for worse products with less selection and more compatibility issues. This is greed and greed at its worst. Greed of the competitor and greed of the State AG's. The hell with the consumer. To hell with progress and standardization. To hell with the world economy. Sacrifice all for greed. IMO, Dave

To: John F. Dowd who wrote (67431)	4/16/2002 4:36:46 PM
From: Dave	Respond to of 74651

John, ...do you want to see all third party developers developing a Balkanized plethora of applications thus reducing their margins as they must divide development costs over a smaller run of product. Are you claiming that Microsoft is so inept a software developer that it can't produce an SDK that runs on Windows with or without bundled apps? Give me a break. They can make WIN32 run on NT, on DOS, and on PocketPC devices, but you claim they can't make it work without IE? Care to back that claim up with some facts? EDIT: Or are you merely claiming that MSFT's bundled apps are so buggy and crash-prone that third-party developers would need to test their apps with and without those apps installed? I would have to agree with that then. Maybe if MSFT were split into OS and Apps companies, the Apps would improve in quality. Are you observing with a white cane? Again with the insults. That doesn't lend a whit of credibility to your outlandish claim. Dave