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

To: Dwight E. Karlsen who wrote (7534)	5/18/1998 11:06:00 PM
From: Hal Rubel	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74651

Monopoly Power RE:'It was MSFT that led the way and made its browser free to consumers. NSCP only bent and starting allowing consumers to have their browser for free when MSFT showed the ungreedy way to reach consumers." Too Easy: If Explorer becomes part of the operating system, will the operating system become free? Next! HR PS: It is worth noting that a good python will let its dinner mouse crawl all over it in seeming indifference, until dinner time.

To: Dwight E. Karlsen who wrote (7534)	5/19/1998 1:51:00 AM
From: Hal Rubel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Gateway on Microsoft's Monopoly Gateway: "[Gateway executive James] Von Holle has testified that if there were competition to Windows he believed such competition 'would drive prices lower' and promote innovation." CNN "Lower prices"?! "Promote innovation"?! HR PS: Well, a new factor now comes into play. Microsoft's support among major customers does not seem to be as monolithic as it appeared to be last week. Maybe it never has been. Will emboldened box makers try to play both ends against the middle, leaving Microsoft swinging gently, ever so gently, in the breeze? Stay tuned.