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

To: Paul Fiondella who wrote (4821)	1/28/1998 6:28:00 PM
From: Gerald Walls	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

If MSFT says to CPQ that if you take NSCP's "code" and not ours, we will not sell you an OS to sell with your computer, you think that is good for the country? Actually MSFT said that they had to include IE. Compaq et al were perfectly free to also include Netscape. They just threatened to cut off support to NT customers that bought NDS on NT from NOVL. That's a fair business practice? Where did you hear this? With an anti-trust investigation in progress this would be very surprising. Unless, of course, MSFT is just saying that they can't support a competitors program or help you figure out why it's crashing your system.

To: Paul Fiondella who wrote (4821)	1/28/1998 7:39:00 PM
From: Ibexx	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Paul, I know where you are coming from--a Novell investor. Why don't you pick some winners for a change? :-)) No need to respond. Regards, Ibexx

To: Paul Fiondella who wrote (4821)	1/28/1998 7:44:00 PM
From: Shawn M. Downey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

msnbc.com

To: Paul Fiondella who wrote (4821)	1/29/1998 7:07:00 AM
From: Shibumi	Respond to of 74651

>They just threatened to cut off support to NT customers that bought NDS on NT from NOVL. That's a fair business practice? Actually, they have stated that they will not support NT customers who have __installed__ NDS (not bought -- the reason I'm making that distinction should become clear quickly). And the reason for that was stated to be that the installation of NDS copied over some integral Microsoft Windows NT DLL's. Microsoft has made it very clear in the past that application vendors can't install over operating system DLL's -- so their action appears consistent with that earlier edict.