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

To: Dwight E. Karlsen who wrote (6811)	5/9/1998 10:33:00 PM
From: jz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Buying Microsoft -- Microsoft shares seen passed 'worst' Street already has priced in threat of antitrust action cbs.marketwatch.com

To: Dwight E. Karlsen who wrote (6811)	5/9/1998 11:49:00 PM
From: Bearded One	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74651

I don't respond to laundry lists of stuff, so I'll just take the first one which was a direct challenge to my veracity: Are you saying that MicroSoft threatened to put Compaq out of business? If so, state your source. My source is Compaq and Microsoft. When Compaq removed the IE icon from the startup screen, Microsoft sent them a 60 day notice of termination for Compaq's license to install Windows 95. To disallow a major PC company to install Windows 95 is to put them out of business.

To: Dwight E. Karlsen who wrote (6811)	5/9/1998 11:50:00 PM
From: The Duke of URL©	Respond to of 74651

Great post. Says it all. And I think the apple software program you are referring to was called Insight, terrific program, VERY slick interface, had general ledger, but no accounts payable module, and you had to use Apple's chart of accounts, no way to change it. If memory serves. IBM had a non-dos accounting package, its price was $9,000+ After dos, you could get a dos accounting package with 13 modules, including accounts payable (!) for $200. Long live Microsoft!! Duke

To: Dwight E. Karlsen who wrote (6811)	5/10/1998 9:20:00 AM
From: Logos	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74651

Re: Are you saying that MicroSoft threatened to put Compaq out of business? If so, state your source. Compaq wanted to change the way Windows looked on Compaq computers. Microsoft said that was unacceptable and would result in Compaq's Windows license being terminated. That's pretty close to threatening to put Compaq out of business. This is not to say that companies don't go into hysterics all the time when someone wants to change their stuff around. Compaq did a similar thing to someone else (memory fails me right now). The difference is that when Microsoft does it, it really can put huge companies out of business. The reason is that they have a monopoly (justifiably earned, IMHO) over the most important piece of software on the computer: The OS. Haz