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

To: LindyBill who wrote (9446)	7/17/1998 5:22:00 PM
From: Andy Thomas	Respond to of 74651

Hi Lindy, I've got some interesting political theories which might be nice to hash out on this thread. With the popularity of aliens and conspiracies and all of that, how about some speculation on possible past shenanigans involving MSFT? Consipracy Theory #1) IBM secretly sees PCs as the next big thing but realize that if they corner the market, the DOJ will come down hard. Behind closed doors they groom a little upstart called Microsoft to rule that market, and kickbacks are secretly given from MSFT to IBM under the table. This would explain IBM's bizarre behavior regarding OS/2 (ok... it was probably that IBM's own mainframes were threatened by OS/2 but it's always fun to speculate). Conspiracy Theory #2) MSFT blows up in IBM's face. IBM sees the PC as a threat to its mainframes, so they intentionally adopt a brain-dead architecture with a funny little OS called DOS (ever seen the movie, The Producers?). With these machines being so persnickity, there was no way they'd sell right? Wrong... IBM sees a major new market open up against their true wishes. Conspiracy Theory #3) MSFT secretly gets the DOJ to investigate them. Seeing the great success of Standard Oil and AT&T shares after their respective breakups, MSFT engineers a charade with the DOJ which will lead to their own (MSFT's) breakup, and highly increased shareholder value. How's that for a start? FWIW Andy