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

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (5433)	3/10/1998 1:56:00 PM
From: X-Ray Man	Respond to of 74651

Both. OS is proprietary and similarly documented in both cases. ROMs are proprietary in both cases, but available from only Apple for Macintosh, from many different vendors (AMI, IBM, etc.) for PC BIOS. BIOS is simpler than Mac ROM, but functionality in Mac ROM not in BIOS is in OS. Heard "back then" similar comments to that of Powersoft. Mostly hooey, except that in early 90's Apple was not aggressive in its support of developers, Microsoft was, and this was very smart for MSFT. I doubt that would be the real reason, but potential market would be a more likely argument to develop for Windows but not MacOS. JMO. Proprietary means that: it is owned by someone. Windows is proprietary--just try copying and distributing it for free ;-)