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

To: jim gasparich who wrote (10770)	9/12/1998 5:01:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Dear Mr. gasparich, Nice job throwing in Microsoft defense line #1, "you're all a bunch of Microsoft haters". As the primary other participant in this little dialogue, I assume it's directed at me. Thanks. As far as the DEC/IE story, yes, rudedog had a good explanation for that. Not that I put the story out as the "TRUTH", as friends of Bill are wont to do. It was from a rumor column, and acknowledged as such. Perhaps the reason people believe these stories is that, in some other context, the pro-Microsoft line is always "it's just good business" or "it's what the customers want", ala Michael Dell before the Senate. You like that kind of truth, that's your business. Me, I get confused. And, on the other note that I responded to, there is some confusion on cause and effect, re: the OEMs reclaiming the desktop. You'll notice there hasn't exactly been a chorus of "oops, I was wrong" from the other side after I found the poll quote about how 52% of PC users had never installed a "software program". You want to talk about lively fiction, you always have the ongoing saga of NT5, the "Enterprise OS": when, exactly, it's going to ship, what, exactly, is going to be in it, and how suitable, exactly, it will be to large scale "Enterprise" computing. Given the recent professions of humility from Redmond, I guess there's another revisionist history being written as we speak. There's also still the story of the spiked DEC NC, which is somewhat more relevant to the current legal proceedings than that DEC browser rumor. Cheers, Dan.