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

To: Dwight E. Karlsen who wrote (7599)	5/19/1998 3:29:00 AM
From: Hal Rubel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Gateway Bolts RE:"So what's stopping wonder boy Gateway executive Von Holle from going for it? Maybe I'm mistaken, but I believe that anyone is free to develop a competing OS." Its the other way around: I do not think it is a mater of going to another OS at all. There is no danger of that. But rumors abound about box maker frustration with Microsoft arrogance and intimidation. I think that the box makers may want a less aggressive Microsoft to deal with. This is a unique opportunity to redefine the hardware/software relationship more to their advantage with a chaste Microsoft. The box makers can always plead that they were intimidated by the Feds to dodge Microsoft's wrath and reprisal. Meanwhile, Microsoft suffers the "Death of a Thousand Pricks". Nothing really big, just a lot of nothing. This sort of thing happens a lot in criminal investigations and aids prosecutors immensely. People want to disassociate themselves and their organizations from any potentially controversial situation. (Think Salem, McCarthy, Watergate, and Whitewater.) HR