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

To: Larry Sullivan who wrote (3797)	10/24/1997 2:54:00 PM
From: Sean G.	Respond to of 74651

Netscape and MS browsers crash too much. I use Netscape Communicator right now because it crashes least. Only once a day. Sometimes more. Rarely less. Do you really think MS is concerned about a pristine windows environment when new users boot-up? If they were, would they ship software that crashes frequently and has big security holes? Of course not! If an OEM wants to customize the desktop of a computer before it ships, isn't that up to them??? Doesn't the OEM try to give the "consumer" what they want? MS, however, is using their dominance to eliminate the choices. I am not suggesting that the DOJ break-up MS. However, I do support giving OEM's (and their consumers) the right to choose without fear of a vicious backlash. As always, MS doesn't get it. The irony I find in all this is MS may be heading down a path to loose everything. Win98 and the browser integrated desktop (or IE4 for that mattter) is the start of the next pardigm shift to the Sun/Oracle/Netscape NC. In one word: JAVA. That virtual Java machine running on every desktop will be the developers platform of choice. Granted, it may seem a bit slow at first. Intel will stay happy with upgrades...for a while. Eventually, buyers will ask themselves, "why am i paying for all this overhead?" Then, they will go out a buy a slick new RISC/Java NC made by ?. Maybe MS doesn't care. Maybe MS has wanted to be a cable company all a long.