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

To: ProDeath who wrote (72173)	8/17/2002 9:35:11 AM
From: Rusty Johnson	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 74651

My office mate is from China ... and I've worked with scores of sharp folks from India, Vietnam, (the former) Yugoslavia ... Tunisia ... Sweden ... Canada ... you name it. The open source model combined with the populations of India and China alone is a pretty powerful force. I've yet to find evidence of intelligent life in Redmond.* The person that put the "mmult", "minverse", "index" and "match" functions into Microsoft Excel should be Knighted. (I'm guessing he wasn't from Redmond.) I thought Bill just dropped a bunch of dough on a trip to China not long ago. ... $80 million Beijing research laboratory Microsoft set up last year ...* wired.com I've got no problem with some of Microsoft's applications. Word (not as good as Interleaf) and Powerpoint are fine. Excel is EXCELlent. They'll be around for a long time. It's Microsoft's business practices that will hurt it in the long run. People tire of being lied to. Threats, law breaking and bribery work in the short run. But it's the top of the first inning. Bill's a sharp guy. He doesn't want to be remembered as a convicted monopolist.