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

To: Bearded One who wrote (6810)	5/9/1998 10:10:00 PM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 74651

Are you saying that MicroSoft threatened to put Compaq out of business? If so, state your source. Btw, what about that Kill MicroSoft sign at Netscape, while they held an 80% share of the browser market? re but don't regard Microsoft's 90+% PC O/S share a monopoly. It is to the consumer's advantage that there be a common platform for which to developers write code - that is the only way to get the advantages of large-scale distribution. If Win95 didn't have such popularity, we wouldn't have programs like QuickBooks for Win95 for $89. Large market = lower prices for all. If Apple's OS, Unix, OS/2, and Dos/Win95 etc, all had the same market share, you can bet that there would be two things that would be different today: 1) Sofware would do less. There would be less new innovations built-in. 2) Software would cost more. If it weren't for the large-scale distribution of DOS by MicroSoft, I would not be where I am today. I would not have been able to offer accounting services to a niche market (Construction industry) at a competitive price. As it is, I took advantage of every new bit of software that came out for DOS - forget Apple etc - When I became a self-employed accountant specializing for construction industry clients, there was exactly ONE software package available for the Apple OS - and it didn't have the features I needed to serve my customers in the real world. Thanks to the mass-marketing of DOS and later Windows, I have some great software to choose from that does the jobs that need to be done to serve the construction industry clients. The prices for this software are still much higher than a mass-market program like QuickBooks, but that is again because the economies of scale arent the same. But at least the software is there, and within $ reach to make it more than worthwhile to buy.