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

To: Hal Rubel who wrote (8051)	5/26/1998 10:54:00 PM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Hal, in the MS browser, there's an icon called "search". Click on it and see what happens. In the event you don't use MS browser, I'll just go ahead and tell you what happens: You go to a site on the MS Network which handily lists all the major search engines. Imagine! Microsoft actually pointing consumers to other companies! It's like, so totally un-Microsoft. They don't normally help anyone, and yet there they are, helping a host of companies. Perhaps these search engines (including Yahoo, AltaVista, Excite, InfoSeek, HotBot, etc., there's more) don't want any help. You can speculate all day long Hal, about the evils which Microsoft is capable of carrying out. Yes Hal, they could squish you like yesterday's bark beetle. But they won't, because that's not the Microsoft way. Not unless you directly challenge them in head-to-head competition in the open marketplace. Like Netscape did. Then they might. Hooo-haa. Let's stick to reality, ok Hal?

To: Hal Rubel who wrote (8051)	5/27/1998 1:36:00 AM
From: Chung Lee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Hal, Have you looked at Opera broswer, on their website, they stress that their browser is NOT free, it costs $35, it is small (1 meg) and not as integrated, yet they are charging for it in the face of MS and Netscape giving away theirs, do you think they are suicidal, naive or just found a niche and trying to exploit it and make some $$. I have not heard them asking doj to give them a free ride.... and for them whiners at Sun and Oracle, I would like to see their hate-filled internal emails in regard to MSFT and Bill Gates. Win98 and will be everywhere by next week and no one can put it back in the bottle. Good day.