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

To: David Ford who wrote (7866)	5/22/1998 11:00:00 PM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Respond to of 74651

David, the Microsoft OS has modernized to include the ability to view data that is beyond the local storage; i.e. data on other servers. The idea of a separate "browser" to perform this data retrieval function is obsolete. The courts will be arguing about something that is irrelevant to a modern OS. While Netscape was plotting the destruction of MSFT, MSFT was innovating. While some get their emotions involved with resisting the idea of a dominant OS, I just ask myself if the dominant OS is doing the job I need it to do. On a business level, the MS OS offers the broadest support from 3rd party software developers. That's a biggie for me, because I want lots of choices of software to choose from. To me, the OS itself isn't that important, it's what kind of software can I run on it, and does that software meet my needs. Business is business. What do I care if Microsoft strong armed CPQ? I'm not going to be punished for that. A corporation exists purely to turn a profit. CPQ et al would love it if there were four or five OSes with more-or-less equal market shares, because then they could play them off against each other. But in the current MS-dominating environment, it doesn't matter to me that CPQ can't strong-arm MSFT.