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Technology Stocks : MSFT Internet Explorer vs. NSCP Navigator -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Keith Hankin who wrote (17829)	3/5/1998 5:36:00 PM
From: Reginald Middleton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

<Yes, MSFT can control pricing. They just raised the price of Win95 $10 to $80.> <I believe that this $80 is the OEM price, which is awfully expensive, especially since the cost of production per unit is nearly $0. Also, this price is more than 10 times what OEMs were paying for DOS.> This has not altered the prices of other OSs, therfore they can not unilaterally control prices. Win 95OSr2/98 also represents significant new R&D expense. This being said, you know that software's primary expense is R&D and the secondary expense is marketing and servicing. Marketing expense has went up (have you noticed MSFT advertises on prime time TV now?). R&D has definitely went upex. IE 3/4/5 and Win 98. Win 95 is more than 10 time the product that DOS was. Your getting a bargain:-) <Yes, your statement is correct, but you can't deny that another equally compelling reason that they did so was to "cut off NSCP's air supply"?> If you admit that NSCP gave away free email clients to cut off Eudora's air supply, and gave away free browsers to cut off Air Mosaic's "air" supply (no pun intended:-)