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

To: K. M. Strickler who wrote (4925)	2/2/1998 12:02:00 AM
From: mozek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

K.M, You're right, our first Compupro OS was CP/M. Then we started using MPM with Z80/8086 systems running either 8 or 16 bit programs in a multiuser environment. Not a bad system at all. Unfortunately, when we moved to 286 Lomas Data Products S-100 systems for performance, we were forced by available application software to move to single user MS-DOS. The file system was better, but leaving multitasking behind always seemed like a travesty. That's one of the reasons I wrote a DOS based multitasker after leaving that company. I don't know of many companies offering stock incentives similar to MSFT's, but I have friends working at other companies who do have option plans. I know that Netscape, Sun, and Macromedia all have plans, but I'd prefer to stick with the one I've got. I'm only one of many at the company with life before Microsoft. You might be surprised at the number of people with a wealth of experience at Microsoft that goes way beyond mine. Maybe one of the reasons Microsoft may have a reputation for lack of innovation is the way that all innovation must be built and presented as a logical progression of technology. Even radical, new concepts and technologies can be developed, but we don't have the luxury of telling customers to rewrite everything. Existing software must continue to work, preserving software investment, and the new technology must be presented similarly to the old, preserving educational investment. Just a thought. Oh yeah... I do agree that Microsoft aquires technology when it makes sense, but that just seems like good business. Thanks, Mike