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

To: miraje who wrote (8688)	6/26/1998 11:20:00 AM
From: DragonBoy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Win98 will be big despite of the bad mouthing from ZDnet. Ez transition from 95 to 98 is the key. I don't expect people to burn rubber to the store and get it, but surely enough they will upgrade it sooner or later. Love them or hate them we got to live with them. Billy boy knows how to do it right. Yes, <<huffing and puffing about the evil Microsoft monopolists >> is an excuse for the loosers. OS2,Mac, SUN OS were born ways before windows, they did not capitalize on it and now they are crying out loud what a bunch of a loosers.

To: miraje who wrote (8688)	6/26/1998 1:07:00 PM
From: Daniel W. Koehler	Respond to of 74651

Jb I agree. Hatch is fighting to subsidize his home boys and their jobs. If he has to cry "monopoly" to do so, he will. You will find very few incumbents who are ideologues. Ciao, Daniel

To: miraje who wrote (8688)	6/26/1998 1:45:00 PM
From: Hal Rubel	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74651

Monopoly RE: "I wonder what Ayn Rand would have thought about the spectacle of Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), conservative "defender of free enterprise", huffing and puffing about the evil Microsoft monopolists on the Senate floor this morning." If Microsoft's detractors can not be trusted, neither can their supporters. The Republican Party's so called Conservative wing, in particular, seems so completely sold out to special interests that they do not really qualify for the noble title "Conservative". I think of them more as "Torys" and "Whigs" from a by-gone age when the purpose of government was based on a spoils system. What they promote seems to be Free Enterprise for the public and Socialism for the privileged. I am especially galled by the mantle of "technical innovation" so often used to justify cloaking Microsoft from the hustle and bustle of a free market. Being a corporate citizen in a public policy minded democracy will eventually catch up to Microsoft. If the breaks can not be put on Microsoft's "folding-in" assault on the computer related economy, then regulators will be forced to resort to actually dividing up Microsoft into competing entities along functional lines in the public interest. This could be a significant limiting factor in how high Microsoft will fly. Hal