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

To: XiaoYao who wrote (333)	11/26/1997 2:49:00 PM
From: Kal	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1600

Maybe the following things I build my argument on ARE assumptions 1- Microsoft said in mid jun (or july) that they're increasing their NT pricing 2 to 4 times. Refer to Informationweek.com, do a search on NT pricing. 2- Once you move to Microsoft OS (DOS to 95, 95 to NT, UNIX to NT) it is a one-way street. In other words, you can't go back to your previous environment. Hence, you're stuck with whatever comes down from Redmond. I have my strong opinions about the quality of the redmond factory, but please make your own: explore and take it upon yourself to find the facts (Hard since the same factory puts out alot of media hype. Enjoy) 3- Microsoft business practices are illegal according to U.S laws (contract tying is but one) 4- Microsoft is a monopoly (80-90 % of OSes on PCs are running windows) Hence, the future/fate/wellbeing of those systems hangs on but one company: MS. make your own conclusions how good that is for the customer (alot of exploring could be done here) 5- Microsoft proved very caring of the customer. Cases in point: Java developers, MS Word 7 backward incompatibility. Calncellation of concurrent user liscencing. 6,7,8,9,10... etc Since the holiday's hours away, after that big nice meal, start searching for facts on the net or what have you. Vorsicht: A lot of hype ahead.