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Technology Stocks : Microsoft - The Evil empire -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kal who wrote (1176)	6/2/1998 8:34:00 PM
From: Robert Winchell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1600

all browsers go under. MS IE becomes dominant. MS adds (actively is) extentions to http and other protocols. MS discontinues IE, http, and other protocols. A new product called Universe Consolidator (UC!), touted by MS as the absolute best innovation ever to take place. MS charges $109 for those who upgrade from IE, $209 for those who buy it new. UC has one DLL that's 126 Megabyte in size, which basically contains windows OS. BackOffice becomes integrated and a necessary component to run UC! which is required to run windows. All the while, that secret radio manufacturer still has a good share of car radio market. MS integrates a car into its OS. MS radio is needed to run the car (remember?). To surf the net, you have to have your car's engine running while that MS radio is on. a whole market of third party developers emerge to solve the problems that are going to appear.... Are you trying to out-do yourself after the car analogy?

To: Kal who wrote (1176)	6/2/1998 8:34:00 PM
From: Robert Winchell	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1600

It could also develop as follows. Or howabout this: A hardware company comes up with a programming language they say will change the whole world and make all software great and all existing software for other platforms obsolete. They spend a huge amount of money to get a hype machine working, trying to get people to develop these applications which are a generation behind existing software. The hardware manufacturer also - get this - wants you to give up your machine with a hard disk so you can't store anything locally or run the programs you already have spent millions of dollars using and training your people on. Instead, they want you to buy machines that can ONLY run applications written in their language, and they only work when connected to servers made by them also! Then, after they convince a lot of people, the biggest software companies that have bought into this scheme realize they can't actually develop the software they want using this system! No, I guess that's just absurd.