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

To: Karin who wrote (11736)	10/24/1998 12:42:00 PM
From: ToySoldier	Respond to of 74651

Karin, MSFT does deserve some credit. They evolved a standard desktop on an open PC hardware platform that is more affordable alternatives could have provided. This is credit that MSFT deserves. Your example of why is not so relevant. If cost is out of the picture then you could have had this kind of functionality and a GUI interfaces several years prior to when MSFT Win95/98 ever delivered it. Apple's solution has had that functionality in the late 80s. The problem was Apple's arrogance which kept their hardware platform extremely closed and the price for their solution too high (very similar to Sony's marketing mistake with Beta over VHS). The Intel/DOS/Windows solution was by far more inferior but far cheaper because of competition. So the market abandoned Apple and followed the growing popularity of Intel/DOS/Windows. Like almost everything else, MSFT didnt invent the benefits you explained, they just made the concept affordable by developing the concept in an OS that could operate on a hardware platform that allowed for competition - which in turn dropped the overall price of hardware. MSFT's clout in the desktop OS monopoly forced plug-and-play standards to be possible in their OS. This was good. Toy