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

To: dybdahl who wrote (74211)	12/9/2005 9:11:17 AM
From: Wyätt Gwyön	Respond to of 74651

MS stopped innovating for IE once Netscape went down. Firefox continues to evolve and is safer to boot. IE is very unsafe due to ActiveX. i avoid using it whenever possible (some sites require it), and shut it down as soon as i am done. read about the dangers of IE vs. FF here: slate.com probably most people are drawn to Firefox only by tabbed browsing, but there are plenty of other features as well. take a look at Greasemonkey: slate.com obviously MS doesn't think the browser is very important anymore, or they would have already released a better browser. it doesn't affect revenues, so they ignore it. but it must be disturbing to them in a broader sense: if this many people can be swayed to a free alternative (FF), then maybe it's not too long before free alternatives to Windows and Office gain a real market. this would be a revenue problem for MS. with systems breaching $300 from the main makers like Dell, and free Office substitutes increasingly available, i think the days of MS' two main monopolies are numbered. that is a real problem for MS, because in technology you really need a monopoly to make consistent high-margin real money. the only problem is, it's very tough to create a monopoly. you have to be very good or very lucky.