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

To: ToySoldier who wrote (10495)	9/3/1998 11:35:00 AM
From: Sommers	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Soldier said: <<...But Wall Street will surely react to the press reports from the pre-trial and trial and this has got to negatively effect the stock price..." If this is true, and I hope it is, why were the heavy hitters loading up Tuesday? (more than 32 mil. shares traded) Why wouldn't they just wait and see how this plays out?? I believe no one really knows what's going to happen and the institutional guys can't take the chance Microsoft will just keep chugging. (Which IS more likely) From the Street's point of view, "NOT having a MSFT position is far riskier than the alternative..." Personally, I hope we see $40 by year end. It would be a dream come true.

To: ToySoldier who wrote (10495)	9/3/1998 11:44:00 AM
From: Big Kahuna	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Well, think about it this way. Microsoft has huge sums of $$$ and very little debt (from what I've heard). Even if they lost, and the gov't fines them an exorbitant amount, I figure that they could probably regroup and figure on a new strategy. As I have said before, it probably wouldn't be the worst thing for the investors if Microsoft were forced to break up into several smaller corporations. Even if all these allegations are proved true (the unethical business practices), I doubt people would really go run out right away to buy a new OS for their PC's. More than likely they'd stay with the one they are most comfortable with (the one on 95% of desktops, Windows). I'm a LAN Admin/Tech at a large bank headquarters and most users here are happy enough that their desktop looks the same day in and out. Just my thoughts.