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

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (11918)	10/29/1998 8:05:00 PM
From: drmorgan	Respond to of 74651

My point was that Microsoft can't roll the costs of IE development on the Apple into the price of the operating system No they can't, and I also noticed you got no response from anyone! Good point!

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (11918)	10/29/1998 11:10:00 PM
From: ed	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

I am sorry you are just not smart enough to get my point. As I said after the cost of development was recovered , the additional copies sold of all Microsoft software products are almost pure profit. Microsoft can integrate the IE into OS and sell them as one single product but still maintain the same price, or they can just let the consumers download the IE free from the internet and sell OS seprately with the same price, or they can let Apple integrate the IE into its OS , but at the same time Microsoft still sell its OS with the same price, it just did not matter how Microsoft wants to sell its IE, the major point is the IE is not free at all, you can only say that Microsoft reduced the price of its products by offering more features . It is claimed as free, but in reality it is not free . For NSCP, since Navigator is NSCP's only product, if NSCP gave the Navigator free, then there is no other products of NSCP to recover the cost of NSCP, so NSCP really gave its Navigator free, absolutely free. So, what is NSCP up to ? As I said no companies in the world can afford to give its products away absolutely free, or they will close their doors, NSCP gave away its Navigator to maintain its monopoly position in the browser market , so that it can dominate the e-commerce market. It is misuse of its monopoly power , and it is also against the antitrust law, and DOJ helped it.