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

To: ToySoldier who wrote (10831)	9/18/1998 11:29:00 PM
From: Phil Melemed	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

<<Attempt at humor follows>> Toy, regarding Microsoft and WebTV you said: Ohh right I forgot, MSFT wants to ensure it has a monopoly - even on dead products. At least in a few years they can say that they have 100% marketshare of 5 users. And it cost them how much for the right to say this? I keep on hearing two versions of this story on this board and elsewhere. The first is that Microsoft wants to have a monopoly everywhere it invests. The second is that when companies see Microsoft has entered a market, they just assume that Microsoft will gobble up the whole market, so these companies are intimidated into looking into alternative markets and products. Taking this one step further, here is what I get: If many people believe this, then all Microsoft has to do to kill a market and discourage other folks from making significant gains in it is to pour money into a visible investment in that market! After all, why bother trying to build up a market, when Microsoft is only going to gobble it, and you, up. Hey, I am beginning to like this conspiracy game. :) (This is not meant in any way as an attack on anybody, nor is it meant as a statement of Microsoft policy through insider information (just in case anyone was gonna ask).