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

To: Zanga56 who wrote (9996)	8/6/1998 10:45:00 PM
From: Position Stragtegist	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

LET THE CUSTOMERS DECIDE. But MS tried to not let the customer decide by using tie in contracts to box makers that IE has to be installed if they want windows. The government is saving MS by drawing the line to tie ins before they become acceptable, for example allowing IBM to specify in contracts that to get mainframes, and maintenance service, customers must use OS2, and microchannel or big blue pcs. MS was so busy with giving away IE, that NT kept slipping. There will not be major product releases for maybe up to two years. MS asset growth rate is awesome, going from 12 to 18 billion in a year. It may become the next berkshire.