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Technology Stocks : Thrustmaster (NASDAQ:TMSR) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: esecurities(tm) who wrote (1353)	3/22/1998 12:06:00 PM
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A Microsoft insider* on 'firmly held cherished delusions about MSFT' Microsoft ruthlessly crushes competitors... Alex St. John "...Actually, this perception often defeats a competitor long before Bill gets his hand on it..." Microsoft is a behemoth that marches along consuming and destroying everything it encounters Alex St. John "...The truth is that Microsoft is rarely effective at displacing a good competitor. Adobe, EA, and Intuit all thrived despite Microsoft's most aggressive efforts. The people who make great technologies are rarely the same people who know how to handle real competition when it comes. The minute they perceive a threat, they change what was originally a focused formula to cope with some perceived threat that often never arrives..." [and reprice insider options without shareholder approval] "...The simple act of changing a working thing is usually enough to destroy it. SGI, Borland, Novell, and Lotus had a winning edge but blew it by hallucinating..." &copy 1998 imagine publishing, April issue boot magazine Vol. 3, No. 4 bootnet.com *Alex St. John was formerly Microsoft's game technology evangelist Two? concerns, 1) what TMSR management was capable of doing pursuant to said perceived threat/hallucinations re: options repricing and 2) the fact [our] TMSR management experienced the same said 'hallucinations' and penned them in their 1996 SEC Form Def/14A Proxy...