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

To: John F. Dowd who wrote (7688)	5/19/1998 10:17:00 PM
From: Hal Rubel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

The Pace of Innovation RE: "How come it has taken AAPL so long to get to OS8.1? ..." Good Point: Apple also has definitely been sluggish and ineffectual, but then they only have a 3.8% market share, a tiny budget, and no expectation of dominating the market. They too have a platform monopoly and have been inward looking until recently. Not that it counts for much, but Apple did perk things up a bit by turning itself inside-out and has spent $400 million outside its realm to acquire NEXT and its technology. However, an OS that bills itself as "the computer for the rest of us" is less likely to be viewed as creating public policy problems in a free society. Apparently even Bill Gates does not regard Apple as serious competition. Could Apple have done better? I do not know, but Microsoft certainly could and didn't. HR PS: You should know that I own a G3 Type Mac at home, but use an Intel type PC at work.

To: John F. Dowd who wrote (7688)	5/19/1998 10:17:00 PM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

By the way if dominance is bad why not go after ORCL they hold about 80% of the DB market. John.....we need to talk. -G- ORCL is one of the good guys. They resent Microsoft too. All these companies who have got rich off Microsoft....and all they do is whine that Microsoft has no competition....in regards to energy, enthusiasm, creativity, vision, competitive win/win spirit, that may be true. Is it Microsoft's fault that no competitor measures up? Must we then level the playing field by "dumbing down" Microsoft? Make them rip apart their Windows product? Bill Gates was right when he said yesterday that Paul Allen and himself "created and fostered" the personal computer industry. Where were all these whining companies when Bill Gates and Paul Allen were examining the first DOS code? It's not like Microsoft was suddenly born a multi-billion dollar company. Everyone had the same chances. Bill Gates is simply one who has had vision and leadership right from the very beginning of his involvement in the computer industry. People can criticize Bill Gates all they want, but they had the same chance, if they were of legal age in the early 1980s. DEC was (still is) primarily involved with bigger businesses. IBM was struggling to shake off the Dept of Jealousy. Etc. Unisys, Wang, Xerox...Xerox was sooooo close. They had the talent, vision and creative individuals. They just didn't have the management who could see the value in what the research dept was doing. Apple wanted to keep everything for themselves. Microsoft immediately right out of the gate made partnerships with IBM, Intel. And they succeeded. Surely they must be stopped. Somewhere. They make the rest of us look like such bumbling fools.