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

To: John F. Dowd who wrote (830)	5/7/1998 12:33:00 PM
From: Kal	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1600

>>It has yet to be proven that they have violated any law They contract-tied products and services: you get our OS IF and only IF you bundle IE. Illegal. I am amazed by the abundant incompetence I see in this issue. It is simple, but Gates et al succeeds to blur and confuse the issues. the OS and IE are one product, YET, IE is sold/available as a separate product. What on earth is this oxymorono-ism?? At any rate. IT and the software industry are the biggest wealth generating industry to the economy now. It will only hurt the general if there is only one choice. I do not know how long it will take people to realise this. Regards.

To: John F. Dowd who wrote (830)	5/7/1998 1:02:00 PM
From: Judd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1600

>> Also ask your self if MSFT is forced to put a price on the browser will NSCP be forced to do the same? Who benefits by that? << I don't know if Netscape will have to sell their browser, or not. This is interesting because they gave it to public domain and no longer own it. Who will benefit? Netscape would. They wrote a nice program and deserve money for their efforts. Microsoft would also in the short term as people would buy IE also. Long term, their predatory tactic of software dumping would be hindered. I don't mind paying for things I use. Judd

To: John F. Dowd who wrote (830)	5/7/1998 1:12:00 PM
From: Kal	Respond to of 1600

>>It will mess a lot of people up if the thing doesn't come on time. Why would it? win98 is win95 with few new features and support. It is an upgrade that could be done with a patch, but Gates can't charge 109 for a patch. Funny.. we're still running DOS with an elegant GUI. >>Think of all the 3rd party vendors whose life blood will be turned off by any hiatus. What about 3rd party? software: Isn't the guts of the OS the same? so they don't need to do anything special to sell products on win98. IF win98 doesn't come through.. big deal.. they can still sell their products for win95. Hardware: What difference does it make? unless you're buying a DVD or want to watch TV using your computer.. which I believe is possible on win95 with a patch if MS chooses so. Heck, with IE and the tons of other MS patches, you're basically upgrading the OS. IE upgrades the kernel. So what's the big deal with win98? I'm not even upgrading if I get it for free. If a 3rd party depends on such OS so-called upgrades, maybe they shouldn't exist!