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

To: Dwight E. Karlsen who wrote (7209)	5/15/1998 3:21:00 AM
From: Larry Sullivan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Excellent post. This is the problem I see with all the anti-microsoft spew - IT IS FLAT OUT WRONG. Like your link shows all these people whining "I have no choice" really mean "I am such a moron I don't know how to find what I want" or "I spout back any anti-microsoft statement I ever heard". Thank you so much for setting the record straight. Larry...

To: Dwight E. Karlsen who wrote (7209)	5/15/1998 3:38:00 AM
From: nommedeguerre	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Dwight, >>Also Norm, if your beef is that you don't want Win95 at all, then simply buy from a vendor who isn't offering Win95 with the PC. No, what I'm saying is that there are plenty of people who want Windows AND Netscape when they buy a new Compaq, Dell, Gateway, whatever. At work, everyone is being switched over to Netscape Communicator and they are also buying new PC's from major OEM's who do not offer this basic combination. The real problem boils down to the question: Are OEM's prevented from offering preloaded software their customers want because of some contractual obligation they had to sign in order to keep their Windows OEM license? Is Microsoft using its leverage in the OS market to give an unfair advantage to its other products. An advantage that independent software developers like yourself could never compete against. Cheers, Norm