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

To: Kal who wrote (346)	12/1/1997 10:33:00 AM
From: Robert Winchell	Respond to of 1600

If you upgraded to win95 from DOS, could you install DOS on top of the same machine and maintain the settings you had in win 95? That doesn't make any sense. What settings in Windows95 would you want to maintain in DOS? Same for moving from win95 to NT? To some extent, yes. Migration for NT5 will be better, but not great. Whether MS was previously convicted is irrelevant to the validity of the current DOJ case and MS current practiced (contract tying one of them). If I ask you: is killing people ok? is selling drugs illegal? Whatever your answer would be, I guess I'll have to assume you're either a criminal lawyer, or a drug law specialist. I accuse you of killing someone. There, you are guilty I guess by your definition. Accusation is not guilt int this country. If the DOJ wins the case, I will accept MS as being guilty. Netscape's or sun's market share does not dictate or limit end user's choice of OS or software. That's what MS is trying to do with IE4 and it's other products; to lock you into their line of products (MS standards), and once you make a commitment, it is too expensive to get out.<i/> Wrong. Netscape and Sun are trying to control the market the same way MS is. They are just failing at it.