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

To: Rich Goldsmith who wrote (4242)	12/12/1997 3:51:00 PM
From: X-Ray Man	Respond to of 74651

If 90-95% of all internet content will eventually be viewed in standard configurations via MSFT IE, it will effectively give them monopoly control. This is obvious, since it will mean that whatever MSFT says is HTML and extensions will now be HTML, etc. This is what DOJ and Congress wants to avoid. If DOJ prevents them from requiring bundling, that means that technically it is possible to separate. The level of integration for Win98 as MSFT planned would not allow such separation, hence, Kline's comments, I suspect.