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

To: Scotsman who wrote (8133)	5/29/1998 12:08:00 AM
From: Hal Rubel	Respond to of 74651

Monopoly RE" Now the big problem in making a comparison of Standard to MSFT in this is that vertical integration of an oil company is hard to compare with a software company. If MSFT had gone into chip manufacture and box manufacture with its own retail outlets, that would be easy. But they haven't done that." Hmmm ... You got me thinking: People buy Dell computers from the internet. The only people buying Dell computers are Microsoft OS users, whose only access after full integration will be through Microsoft internet access. My Question: Any way this could give Microsoft extra sway with Dell? Could Dell be helped. Could Dell be hurt? HR