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

To: Hal Rubel who wrote (8107)	5/28/1998 6:31:00 PM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

However, I do expect the DOJ to limit Microsoft's use of its OS dominance to by pass having to compete in the market place in order to create monopolies in other areas. If you're referring to the internet capabilities built into Win95 and Win98, I suggest getting over it. The DOJ just flat doesn't have the authority to tell MSFT what capabilities to put into a computer operating system. When everyone knows that the internet is vastly changing the way people use their computers, shop, buy, products, conduct research, etc; it would be criminal for the DOJ to say that MSFT doesn't have a right to enable their product to work better with the internet. Several years ago people were ridiculing Bill Gates for not having the vision to make Microsoft's products embrace the internet. Now that Microsoft has dramatically turned their attention to making their products work very well with the internet, people (probably many of the same ones who ridiculed several years ago) are crying foul. Sour grapes. Sorry Hal, but the MSFT competitors and would-be competitors just aren't good enough to measure up to Microsoft. And that's what really bugs some people.