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

To: John F. Dowd who wrote (10283)	8/25/1998 9:15:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Dowd, you're a moron. Now I understand why you're always hitting me with this hot air line, you're incapable of following the simplest dialogue. So, once more, very slowly: Ed Yander, in 10262 Oh right, the freeware thingy is so much better and pure. Pity those uninformed lawyers and doctors charging fees for their services and then driving home in the BMW with the beautiful blonde. Me, in 10264: You know, people used to pay for Netscape software, till Microsoft set the price of browsers to 0. Ed Yander, 10276: LOL. Microsoft is charging for its browser because Windows aint free. Me, 10281: Your stunning relevation also has me wondering about IE for Macintosh and Unix. MacOS and Unix are Windows variants now? And now you come in with your brilliant observation about downloading Mac IE for free. I would have assumed that with your extensive experience with Rand's turgid prose you'd be able to follow such a simple dialogue, but that would be assuming too much I see. Bill Gates a communist- you have some interesting notoions. OK, irony impairment isn't quite moronic, we all fall victim to it sometime. But, for posterity, here's Bill on the matter. There was a growing sense among Microsoft execs that the Internet opportunity had to be seized--before it slipped to others. On June 1, 40 of them gathered at the Red Lion Inn in Bellevue, Wash., to brainstorm Net strategy. Gates gave a 20-minute talk on the ''Internet Tidal Wave.'' Slivka's scheduled 15-minute talk ended up lasting more than an hour. ''I got some people riled up,'' he says. At one point, Slivka proposed that Microsoft give away some software on the Net, as Netscape was doing. Gates, he recalls, ''called me a communist.'' (from businessweek.com ) Got that, oh idolator of Bill? Of course, this was the famous Business Week revisionist history, which has now been rendered inoperative by the new "We were on top of it all along" revisionist history. Windows is open, too. As for randomness, you might enjoy this other quote I stumbled on today: Random. It's a random number. It's all finance! Demand means nothing! It's some market analyst spewing out numbers because he's supposed to! Once you prove that the revenue stream is there, you can borrow the money you need to build the network which runs the applications that create the demand. It's all finance. No one can project what the numbers are going to be by the end of the decade. It's random! (from redherring.com That's your man Bill. Oct. '93, while he and secret #2 J. Allard were already on top of the internet thing, but he was playing along with the cable guys' "information superhighway" thing of the moment. In a clever disinformation ruse, I'm sure. Reggie will like the finance part, but the Regimodel spews gigobytes of those random numbers so he might take issue with that part. Cheers, Dan.