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

To: Gerald Walls who wrote (9855)	7/31/1998 2:42:00 PM
From: ToySoldier	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

No Gerald, let me rephrase you understanding. 3rd party vendors dont refuse to sell products on competing OSes, a main law of a capitalist economy is "Supply and Demand". Because MSFT has an overwhelming monopoly on the desktop, why would any 3rd party OEM/ISV in their right mind develop applications on a competing product with 2% marketshare? Let me say it again for you since you didnt thoroughly read my posting. MSFT is not being punished for having a monopoly. They are not being punished because ISVs are not developing applications to other OSes. MSFT is being punished because they are ABUSING their responsibilities as a company that has a monopoly. Read the damn Anti-Trust legislation very very carefully. A company with a clear monopoly cannot use the monopoly as leverage to gain marketshare in other products they wish to compete in. To be more clear for you: They cannot leverage their clear monopoly in the desktop OS that 90%+ Intel computers need to run BROWSER software to market/sell their own version of BROWSER. MSFT would not have had a problem if they did not integrate the Browser into their Win95/Win98 and charged a seperate fee for the I.E. I hope that is clear enough. Toy