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Technology Stocks : Microsoft - The Evil empire -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dragonfly who wrote (757)	4/22/1998 2:34:00 PM
From: Robert Winchell	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1600

By preannouncing products and features that competitors are attempting to create, in order to undermine financial and market support for those competitors without ever having the intention to ship the products mentioned (or blatently lying about when the products will ship when a competitor is ahead -- 10 years for pen windows!). OK, MS completely screwed the Pen Windows thing. They killed the Go Corp, flat out. Additionally, they have repeatedly and successfully stolen competitive advantages and protected this theft in court. The result is people try to stay out of MS's way rather than compete with them. This is the definition of destrying innovation and creativity. How do you "steal" a competitive advantage? Doesn't Microsoft have the right to protect their business investments? If you were in the software industry this would all be very obvious because you would have worked for a company that had this happen to it. (Its happened, literally, to every single company I've worked for at one point or another, excepting when I worked at Microsoft (and then I got to see them do it.)) Well, I do work in the software industry as a software developer. I've been a Windows developer for about6 years now. Luckily, none of the companies I worked for had problems with MS. But that's because we had a decent strategy that involved trying to determine what MS was going to be working on in the future. The fact is, MS has the right to develop technology just like anyone else. Just because they start going up against your technology, doesn't make them evil. It just makes them the 800-pound gorilla.