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

To: Ross Roberts who wrote (7310)	5/16/1998 10:52:00 PM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Respond to of 74651

Ross, really?? Sorry to hear. I've been using Corel's WP Suite 7 for quite some time, and have noticed not one bug. It works perfect. If Suite 8 has too many bugs, I'll just go back to using Suite 7. But Suite 8 has got good reviews in the PC magazines. I've noticed COSFF stock price, never invested. To tell the truth though, I do wonder about these contracts that MSFT gives to PC vendors in re bundling application software, and whether or not there may be clauses which ban offering choices of other products such as Lotus SmartSuite or Corel WP Suite. From this perspective I have to admit that there are legitimate concerns about the heavy-handedness of some of the contract language. When all you see is MS Office SBE or MS Works or MS Office being offered at all the major vendors with their PCs, you have to wonder how Microsoft manages to completely sweep the competition so near-universally. Some PC vendors used to at least offer Corel WP Suite or MS Office SBE as a choice made by the buyer at the time of purchase, but that choice is no longer there at some major vendors such as GTW. Others such as Dell never have offered Corel.