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

To: The Duke of URL© who wrote (5406)	3/10/1998 10:48:00 AM
From: X-Ray Man	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Windows is as proprietary an operating system as MacOS. Apple lost out to Wintel becaused the boxes were cloned and cheaper, not because Windows was an "open system." It wasn't, it isn't, and it won't be unless DOJ forces it so to counteract monopoly status. People wanted a monopoly for their phone system for a long time too. Even seemed to make sense at the time. But there was a way around that technically. In any case, you either get a regulated monopoly or a market for a defined technology. Which prospect is liklier for OS?