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

To: Daniel W. Koehler who wrote (8176)	5/30/1998 1:37:00 AM
From: Arnold Layne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Just curious, How many dollars per share do some of you on this thread guess that MSFT will be trading at on December 31, 1999? I thought it would be interesting to see how much the guesses would vary. I mean the subject is 'how high will Microsoft fly?' My guess would be 180. Can someone answer the following question? My friend just bought a new Compaq computer from Comp USA and got a voucher for a free Windows 98 upgrade when it arrives. Does Microsoft get revenue from both the Windows 95 that is on the computer now and the Win 98 upgrade, or just one of them? THANKS IN ADVANCE, ARNOLD

To: Daniel W. Koehler who wrote (8176)	5/30/1998 4:32:00 PM
From: M31	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Daniel W. Koehler -- Re: <<Well, let's see here. If I (MSFT) buy you out (the entrepreneur), seems like I've done the opposite of cutting off your air supply. Seems like you hit the jackpot.>> Would Bill Gates have hit the jackpot if IBM bought him out early on? And if he refused to sell, don't you think they could have "cut off his air supply"? <<But, the State can do only two things - subsidize and coerce. Perhaps you believe that the State acts altruistically for the common good. Fine, except neither have any basis in fact.>> How about the fact that the United States is the greatest nation the world has ever known? Or did the Constitution (which is the foundation of "the State") have nothing to do with it? <<Decide which is dearer to you - your liberty or your trust in the State to act altruistically.>> I think you need to decide which is dearer to you -- your freedom of choice or your trust in Bill to act altruistically. << I'd just as soon let the market decide rather than some nabob in DC trying to cling to his power over us all.>> Don't you mean "let microsoft decide"? M31