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

To: Hal Rubel who wrote (8695)	6/27/1998 7:45:00 PM
From: Andy Thomas	Respond to of 74651

Hi Hal, Someone else has got to come out with something which is cheap, and sucks less than MSFT. For now, in the consumer market i would say MSFT rules in part because they "suck less." I'm not happy with Windows, but it's better than a Mac, in my opinion. OS/2 could have been something but I think IBM dropped the ball there. Be may be the next big thing but I have questions as to who really owns Be. If Sun had wanted volume they should have catered to the low end. Now they're getting hit in the mid-range... even there Sun should have used economies of scale to pre-empt the MSFT assault. As overpriced as I think MSFT's stuff is, they seem to understand economies of scale better than most, if not all of the other major players. FWIW Andy