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To: qdog who wrote (7006)	1/11/1998 5:41:00 PM
From: Ramsey Su	Respond to of 152472

good doggie, welcome back. Ramsey

To: qdog who wrote (7006)	1/11/1998 8:35:00 PM
From: Harvey Rosenkrantz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Welcome back qdog. I'm glad it takes more than a good whack on the nose to keep you in the corner. Good report from Lehman referenced above. Got an email from a friend who subscribes to Value Line he says thay like it with a 1 for timeliness. Globalstar ready to launch. 3rd quarter coming out in a few days. Annual meeting Feb 10. Go hit some golf balls and relax. Better days are coming.

To: qdog who wrote (7006)	1/11/1998 11:23:00 PM
From: JMD	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

wow pup, that was a long walk--how many bushes did you favor? Your gin martini, shaken not stirred, is ready now. Welcome back. Mike Doyle

To: qdog who wrote (7006)	1/12/1998 2:31:00 AM
From: Asterisk	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

OT All right, I've seen enough posts on MSFT and kept my peace. I now have to jump in and add a small twist to what the pooch has been saying. This is the ONLY post that I will make about MSFT. It is always nice to have a different perspective so maybe this will help some of the people out there that don't understand why he is biting on their butts so hard. I write quite a bit of software in the job that I have. Up until now we have been using Borland C++ to write the code. Now we are forced to move to MSFT Visual C++ because we want to move our applications to windows. Why should we change our compiler you may ask. Well the simple answer is that we have to. To explain why it will be easier to tell you a true story. Someone I know was trying to write an application that had a specific feature that he knew Visual C++ had (floating toolbars). He looked through all of the books and couldn't find anything that mentioned this feature. He called Microsoft technical support, in fact he spent so much time on the phone with them that he had to get a company credit card. Still they couldn't tell him how this feature worked. In the end he used connections that he had within Microsoft to find in their INTERNAL documentation how to implement this feature. This allowed him to implement something in one line what would have otherwise been hard (if not impossible) to implement. While he was trying to do this he was also fighting the buggy user interface that didn't do what the manuals said it would do and spending the companies money on the phone with Microsoft tech support. To some this may sound like some kind of minor gripe. I admit that it may be, but this is the way that Microsoft does business. They have a product that they add extra features to and don't tell anyone except for Microsoft engineers. As a business you can hardly blame them, they are just giving themselves a built in advantage. The problem is that they are the ones that make not only the operating system, but the tools and the applications to use with this system. In giving themselves this inborn advantage they are operating like Boeing did way back when they owned not only the manufacturing of planes but the airline also (United I think). Another example would be A&P markets. They used to own farms that would only produce stuff for them. This gave them a built in advantage of owning the process from dirt to store shelves. The government made them stop. The last example of this is the Checker cab company. They not only were the cab company they made their own cars for a while (really good cars too). Eventually the government made them stop. All of this ranting leads me to my point. It is an undeniable advantage for Microsoft to write the OS, applications, and tools all under one roof. If they were forced to break up into different companies I think that lots of people would be happy. That does NOT mean that Bill can't own all of the new companies, they just can't have the same incestuous relationship they have now. Ranting off.