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

To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (10153)	8/17/1998 8:32:00 PM
From: cheryl williamson	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74651

Reg, I assume you are long on MSFT, so keep buying it, Reg. Their earnings from the past couple of years are going to be tough to repeat. That prediction is based on MSFT's historic inability to write quality software or to innovate and the emergence of real competition and rapidly changing technology. Forget about NT being the next blockbuster product. Forget about competing in the embedded market or internet commerce. Forget about high-margin enterprise solutions or even mid-level servers for business or the internet. The one bright spot on the horizon for BG &Co., though, is their move into the consumer market for hot coffee. If they can't have Java, at least they can sell MSFT coffee at Border's Books. I think that's about the right speed for MSFT & all investors should take it pretty seriously as a new direction for the future. Who knows, they may even give Starbucks a run for their money. That's right, Reg, coffee may be the next big thing. By your esteemed calculations, it may add, what...$100-$300 billion to their over-bloated market cap? Since you don't know anything about computers, I suggest you take a beginning course in data processing so you can make your decisions about products and marketing based on knowledge instead of ignorance and guesswork.