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

To: X-Ray Man who wrote (5047)	2/7/1998 12:58:00 PM
From: Mike McFarland	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74651

The negative sentiment against MSFT does seem to have picked up in the last few days. MSFT is an easy target--because they are such a big target. If you think about the number of companies that are complaining about MSFT's practices--I wonder if there is some threshold beyond which everybody jumps in on the attack, hyenas massing to bring down the gazzelle so to speak. Somebody on the thread in the last ten or 20 posts said they shorted MSFT on friday--it has certainly had a super run up in the last few weeks. I had dabbled in the puts before the run up--but thankfully have been out of that game this whole time (oh I hate to think how much the calls would have made me...). Anyway, I am surprised that people visit this topic and say that they are interested in MSFT as an investment. Geeze--wouldn't you all agree that the investments have already been made? If you buy Microsoft stock now, ask yourself what are you doing? You are speculating that an already huge empire will become the biggest company on the face of the planet someday! When the market capitalization of Microsoft stock surpasses General Electric I will have to come back to this thread and say how wrong I was, how I should have finally "invested" too. For now, I am again "putting". Heck, I'd rather put AOL but the premium on the MSFT puts is a lot less. I guess everybody assumes that Microsoft is invincible, maybe it is. But at least in the short term the stock is overbought.