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

To: Dwight E. Karlsen who wrote (8194)	5/31/1998 4:19:00 PM
From: M31	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Dwight -- You call your post on the DOJ complaint objective? A few examples (DOJ complaint is in italics; your comments are bold): Microsoft has recognized that the widespread use of browsers other than its own threatens to increase the distribution and use of Java, and in so doing threatens Microsoft's operating system monopoly. [Oh! That must be why Microsoft has devoted resources to help promote the Java language] Help promote Java? The Justice Department filing quotes an internal Microsoft document as saying that the "strategic objective" was to "kill cross-platform Java by grow[ing] the polluted Java market." And isn't "cross platform" the entire point of Java? How would killing it benefit consumers? Microsoft, however, has not been willing simply to compete on the merits. For example, as Microsoft's Christian Wildfeuer wrote in February 1997, Microsoft concluded that it would "be very hard to increase browser share on the merits of IE 4 alone. It will be more important to leverage the OS asset to make people use IE instead of Navigator." (MS7 004346). [oh right....Is the DOJ now the word police? They sound like paranoid schizophrenics to me.] Word police and paranoid schizophrenics? For trying to enforce antitrust law? Or should Chairman Bill and his devoted followers be exempt? Whaaa! M31