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Technology Stocks : Microsoft - The Evil empire -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Steve Booth who wrote (63)	10/27/1997 4:32:00 PM
From: Robert Winchell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1600

>Their dealings in the Pen based Windows market is another example of >Microsoft's tactics which border on the fringes of legality. They >essentially put the "GO" operating system out of business. There's a >book written by the owner of "GO" which documents the entire story. I read this book, which was very good and a real eye opener. MS does have some bad business practices. I agree with that. Some of them are most likely illegal. I know that too. If MS is doing something illegal, I expect it will be corrected. If they are just trying to make money and maximize profits, I really can't fault them for that.

To: Steve Booth who wrote (63)	10/27/1997 4:53:00 PM
From: Kal	Respond to of 1600

>>They changed the licensing language between version 3.51 and 4.0 of NT Workstation to restrict the number of incoming connections to 10. [etc] Exactly. This is the way microsuck does business: the first few crack sniffs are very cheap if not free. Once you're hooked, and since there is no other dealers, the price is jacked up. If there are other dealers that sell crack, microsuck will beat their price, or give out free crack. Other dealers find their business losing, they go somewhere else. Now microsuck owns the block. The price is jacked. Now you buy or you die. It's your choice baby. That's the story of NT 4. They frame businesses up in a one-way street. Once you buy into it, no looking back. Now you gotta live with it and pay the premium. You follow the street regradless of which way it winds. Not to mention the bogus excuses for differences between workstation and server versions. If I were an IT manager I wouldn't buy NT. If a Dilbert boss at the top forced it down, I'd simply quit. There is abundance of jobs. Here we have a major project that involves NT being the end user's computing machine. None, from Dilbert bosses (if any) to end users are happy with performance or complexity. The way they insure that all machines are configured correctly and uniformly is, prepare yourself, swap out harddrives, install new ones. Proved to be the least of a headache. Go figure. I'm not doubting the competency of people, rather the gifts NT introduces to the masses. And it's only the beginning.