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To: John Carragher who wrote (11383)	10/22/1998 12:15:00 PM
From: Frank Wechsler	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Anybody have any ideas why we're getting clobbered today? Profit taking?

To: John Carragher who wrote (11383)	10/23/1998 1:22:00 AM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Hard to argue: cbs.marketwatch.com What he misses, of course, is that Microsoft is ensuring that user's don't have a choice of hardware and software for any other OS, that's one problem OS slash II had also. All hardware and software drivers are now targeted toward Windows, everything else is an afterthought. Microsoft is a great company, IMO. Their support is second to none in my experience. The depth and breadth of material available to support software development is second to none. I think they design very poor infrastructure and very poor applications. They're too fat and too complicated; needlessly fat, needlessly complex, archaic in so many ways. They just really stink at every level, technologically speaking. Fortunately, TCP/IP, ODBC, HTTP and other standards have saved them; every time they attempt to make their own version of a good idea they screw it up -- DOS programers are oxymorons, perhaps just morons, and they can't seem to get away from that child-think in their designs. I am convinced they think "complex" means impressive; the rest of us know that achieving "simplicity" is the more difficult challenge. Microsoft has a false sense of simplicity which generally evolves into a giant morass that exposes their childish lack of foresight. So I think they've got some very bad technology (future generations will look at COM in disbelief and scratch their heads wondering why Java technology didn't instantaneously crush Windows, I know why) backed by a really great company with professional support, top-notch documentation, training materials and what not. Really a marvelous company that makes up for a good part of their botched technology.