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

To: Phil Melemed who wrote (10665)	9/10/1998 11:43:00 AM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Oh dear. Since the oxymoronic "Microsoft innovation" line is about again, I have to repost today's story from the good gray Times, about how Microsoft, and only Microsoft, must be free to innovate. Digital Employees Tell of Threats by Gates nytimes.com Bill wouldn't want Andy Grove to think he was special or anything. PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Offering new evidence supporting the government's allegations that Microsoft Corp. routinely suppresses competition in any new market that might threaten its monopoly in personal computer operating systems, five current and former executives of Digital Equipment Corp. said that their company was forced to drop a planned Internet product last year under threats from Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates. The Digital Equipment executives said that the company disbanded a product development group based here after Gates told Robert Palmer, who at the time was Digital's chief executive, that a product the group was developing with a Microsoft rival, Oracle Corp., would threaten an earlier deal for Microsoft to develop a version of its industrial-strength Windows NT operating system for Digital's powerful new processor. That Bill, what a guy. He knows where we want to go, and he's just doing his job, redirecting everybody else back onto One Microsoft Way. Of course, those DEC guys have an ax to grind. Unconditional surrender by Compaq in the sacred icon war required them to ban Netscape from the premises. The poor DEC Unix guys don't have much in the way of browsers now that they're in the fold. That's Bill's "free market" at work for you. Still looks like a planned economy to me. Cheers, Dan.