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Technology Stocks : Netscape -- Giant Killer or Flash in the Pan? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Buzz Lightyear who wrote (3091)	5/7/1998 7:30:00 PM
From: Leo Francis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4903

Does the specter of MSFT being forced to include Netscape Browser in WIN 98 mean anything? Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) fell $3 to $83 3/8 on concern that the software and operating systems giant won't be able to ward off a broad antitrust suit by the Justice Department. In its latest issue, Business Week reports that barring a last minute settlement, the department is ready to launch "expansive antitrust action" against the company "within days," perhaps by May 15, when the company is scheduled to start shipping Windows 98 to computer makers. It appears that instead of outright blocking the release of Windows 98, Justice wants Microsoft to offer a version of Windows 98 without its Internet Explorer browser that would cost significantly less than the version with the browser. Some are speculating that Justice may go so far as to require Microsoft to include Netscape Communications' (Nasdaq:NSCP - news) Navigator browser in an affirmative action program of sorts, to help Netscape regain some of the market share it has lost to Microsoft. Netscape once cornered 85% of the market and still controls 60%, while Microsoft has come from zip to command 40% of the market. Good Trading, LF