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

To: Paul Fiondella who wrote (4876)	1/30/1998 6:15:00 PM
From: Gerald Walls	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Compare DOS to WIN95. The OEM price went up to $75. Of course the consumer doesn't see that tariff so they just think its free. Wow. You're right. The price went up and WIN95 is no better than and adds no new functionality over DOS. If it did it would be worth more. Do you remember when you had to buy DOS and Windows 3.1 and it still couldn't really multitask? Why do you hate MSFT so much?

To: Paul Fiondella who wrote (4876)	1/30/1998 7:04:00 PM
From: Alan Buckley	Respond to of 74651

[Prices drop in MSFT monopoly markets??? Compare DOS to WIN95. The OEM price went up to $75.] Good lord, $75! Nobody else charges that much, do they? Uhhh, well yes, they all do actually. Thankfully, Paul, I'm sure MSFT will still sell you DOS if you'd rather run that. Of course, you'd have to buy and install the networking, disk tools, and windowed shell yourself, so you're already up several hundred dollars in cost, and you won't get the thousands of new device drivers...but hey, that's all just illegally tied product you don't want anyway, right?