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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (267690)	6/27/2002 1:39:14 PM
From: gao seng	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

You opinion on technical matters means as much to me as Bill Clinton's on the Second Coming.

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (267690)	6/27/2002 2:05:37 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769667

Re: "The reality is msft is stagnant because their software cannot evolve with the functional integration required to make any significant change in productivity. Msft latest xp has abandoned any attempt to remain complatible with existing hardware and can barely keep up with newly released hardware. Functional integration has advanced beyond msft's ability to make a difference. Functional integration is a few years behind where it might have been if not for msft." >>> I conceive that is possible, but it's a little too hypothetical for me to take it as a given. >>> I believe though (with the new subscription-based pricing schemes, and the charted rise in the median OS price points) that it can be clearly demonstrated now that Microsoft's exercise of it's monopoly pricing power has caused the OS's share of total system cost to rise.... >>> As hardware costs (competitive market) have fallen, OS costs (monopoly market) have increased. >>> This is increasingly becoming a problem at the entry level of the PC market - where manufacturers would like selling prices for total systems to be less than the (high) cost of MSFT's frontline OS.