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

To: XiaoYao who wrote (9838)	7/31/1998 4:57:00 AM
From: Philipp	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

I run Linux and Windows 95 on my PC, the latter not because it is better, but because there are so many more applications easily available. In fact, of all the operating systems I am using/have used (Vax/VMS, Unix, Windows/DOS), Windows is certainly the worst one, and I don't see how Windows could have achieved its monopolistic status without questionable practices. Bork makes an excellent, well-reasoned case and I hope that the court will break up Microsoft into an OS and an applications company. By the way, I don't think that that is necessarily bad for the share price. From a consumer's point of view, this will force Microsoft to produce a slim operating system instead of the present bloated approach which automatically loads all that stuff I don't want, but eats up lots of processing power and extends boot time. Integrating IE into Windows 98 may have been a great mistake in this context that may well make them lose the court case. A good operating system should be slim, and everyone should be able to install all the applications from whichever provider one chooes.

To: XiaoYao who wrote (9838)	7/31/1998 9:10:00 AM
From: ToySoldier	Respond to of 74651

Xiao Yao, You might be quite correct in saying that several vendors have or had monopolies with their products. Where you seem to be confused is that the DOJ is not going after MSFT's desktop monopoly simply because they have a monopoly. The anti-trust regulations target those companies that have a monopoly and abuse the power of this monopoly. Its MSFT's obvious dirty practices that they use with their moonopoly that the DOJ is targeting. So many people out there think that the DOJ and State AGs are only targeting MSFT just because the have a monopoly. If MSFT would have respected their position and played fair they would not be going to court in Sep. Toy