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

To: Raymond who wrote (7283)	5/16/1998 6:52:00 PM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Raymond - anyone that wants to is free to "clone" the MSFT OS. It's just not as easy as you might think. Backward compatibility, plug-and-pray, and all that.

To: Raymond who wrote (7283)	5/16/1998 7:27:00 PM
From: dumbmoney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Can anyone explain why no other company can clone the MSFT OS? Oh, it's been tried, e.g. Sun's WABI. But Windows isn't static, there's no way they can keep up, and they can't compete on price. It makes no economic sense. It's completely different with CPUs, because the architectural feature set doesn't change, the implementation just gets more efficient. It's like being stuck with DOS 1.0 features forever and competing on who can squeeze the most bytes out of the executable.