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

To: Bald Man from Mars who wrote (6466)	5/4/1998 5:10:00 PM
From: larry	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74651

BMFM, MSFT might head south toward 80. It's a good bet. However, I think that it has good support at 86-87. We will see. Actually it's not only MM who is trying to move this issue down for a huge gain later, MSFT itself is also trying to take this issue down for their further benefits. MSFT is making about 250 millions each year selling puts against MSFT. MSFT will be at 120-130 late this summer. Everyone on the street knows this game and small players like us certainly should take this opportunity to make a full ride. good luck, larry!

To: Bald Man from Mars who wrote (6466)	5/4/1998 5:19:00 PM
From: Deliveryman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

OK DUD... I mean DUDE... I like to hold it over night because it gaps up more often than it gaps down... I don't mind that it is correcting a bit... I watch it and won't let it hit me too hard, but then I will buy it before the end of the day... Today I could watch it because I was loving ENMD, what a ride!

To: Bald Man from Mars who wrote (6466)	5/4/1998 7:51:00 PM
From: Maverick	Respond to of 74651

Despite suit, government depends on Microsoft N.Y. Times Even as it steps up its antitrust pursuit of the Microsoft Corp., the government is becoming increasingly dependent on the company's software. The U.S. Army, Navy, Social Security Administration, Health and Human Services Department, Defense Logistics Agency, Postal Service, Coast Guard and, yes, the Justice Department, Microsoft's antitrust antagonist, have all started programs to use Microsoft software on tens of thousands of desktop computers. Part of the push toward Microsoft involves the company's office productivity and communications programs like its Word for word processing and its Excel spreadsheet, which in many federal offices are replacing software from Wordperfect and Lotus. But the biggest move involves sales of Microsoft's industrial-strength operating system, Windows NT, which is becoming more and more popular in corporate America. ''Microsoft and especially Windows NT are just taking over the desktop in the federal government,'' said Robert Dornan, senior vice president of Federal Sources Inc., a research firm in McLean, Va. ''And I don't see anything on the horizon that would undermine its success.'' To be sure, the spectacle of Washington's beating Microsoft with one hand while buying from it with the other is not as glaringly contradictory as it might seem. The antitrust confrontation with Microsoft, the Justice Department insists, is not intended to hobble the company but to protect competition and innovation in the software industry. The focus of the investigation, as the department considers filing a major antitrust case against Microsoft, is on accusations that the company is using its near-monopoly in the market for personal computer operating-system software to gain an unfair advantage in the new markets of Internet software, new media and online commerce. But if Microsoft succeeds not through unfair advantages but by offering the best product for the best price, then modern antitrust policy is working as it should. ''That's right,'' a senior Justice Department official said on condition that he not be identified by name, because ''I certainly don't want to throw them a bouquet.''