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

To: Columbo who wrote (4014)	11/13/1997 4:11:00 PM
From: Brian Malloy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Just thought you might be interested in knowing that you are participating in the "Definition" as a member of SI. Since you have defined the definitions would this then make you the Chief Definition? From the SI news release. Silicon Investor has achieved a scale and sophistication not thought possible with Microsoft NT. SI's server farm, consisting primarily of dual Pentium Pros, handles more than 4 million page views per weekday and more than 100 million page views per month. All 2.5 million messages in the SI database are archived and fully searchable. The site is entirely dynamic, with every page created "on the fly" from a Microsoft SQL Server database. Said Brad Dryer, co-founder, "Growth continues to be explosive. We are gearing up to serve 8-10 million page views per day in January, the most important month of the year for tech stocks." Keep those messages flowing

To: Columbo who wrote (4014)	11/13/1997 5:04:00 PM
From: Joe Sabatini	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Using your brain, can you please tell me how Microsoft's endeavors have been a bad thing for the software industry? How is the Windows standard a bad thing? How is making the average consumer confident that their software purchases will be compatible with their operating system a bad thing? Are software development standards a bad thing? Are Visual Basic / C++ substandard products? Didn't Microsoft receive accolades from PC Magazine for having designed the most elegant Office suite around? (oh by the way, just because you design the OS, it doesn't mean your app software will be elegant) Does Microsoft fail to perform massive usability studies so that the average user will be happy? Like any company, they protect their turf. In our capitalistic society, what should Microsoft be doing with it's success and hard earned money? Perhaps you would like them sign up with the Mormons and give 10% of their gross profit to the Church. Why don't you tell me how Microsoft can become a kinder, gentler, more submissive company? Also let me know how it would be better for the World. I don't think you can. Joe S.