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

To: William Triplett who wrote (4342)	12/17/1997 10:05:00 PM
From: Schiz	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74651

If ms could obtain 80%-90% browser market share by supplying a better browser that would be acceptable. What they are doing is using their dominance in the os market to force people to use ie. This is unaccepatable. Where does it stop? I understand the latest version of word will read and write html docs. Maybe they should also integrate word into the os. As long as all that stuff is in there you might as well add a deskop publisher and excel. We would still have the choice to buy other products (IF WE HAD ANY MONEY LEFT OVER AFTER PAYING $1000 OR SO FOR THE OS). They pretty much admitted that they forced oems to use the version with ie. They're hiding behind the fact that it's too integrated to remove it without severely handicapping the os. That's bull. What they're doing as far as deleting any file that has any remote connection to ie so the os is dysfunctional is also a joke. I think they've pushed their luck a little too far this time.