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

To: Bearded One who wrote (11955)	10/30/1998 1:52:00 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

"It's 9$ a piece if you don't buy from company X, but it's $18 a piece if you do." I have seen this positioning several times before on the net but I have never seen anything like this in any MS OEM discussions and I have been in many over the last 14 years. Do you have anything substantial to support this or is it just another urban legend?

To: Bearded One who wrote (11955)	10/30/1998 2:49:00 PM
From: XiaoYao	Respond to of 74651

AOL did raise their price for unlimit internet access when everyone else only charged $19.95/month. Netscape first set browser free, then charged $39.95 when they had monopoly position in browser until they had competition from IE. When did Microsoft raised Win95 price? It was $89 4 years ago, it is $89 now. About OEMs, do you have anything solid back your up or you just made up yourself? Did OEM prices ever higher than $89?

To: Bearded One who wrote (11955)	10/31/1998 2:19:00 AM
From: ed	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74651

So, if you do not buy the browser from MFT, then the price of OS is $9. However, if you buy the browser from MSFT, then the price of OS together with IE is $18. What is wrong with this pricing policy ? If MSFT did not enter the Browser market, then with 90% of the browser market back in 1995, NSCP can absolutely control the market of Browser today, then you will see the price of Browser shot to the moon. With 100% control of the browser market, NSCP can well control the internet service market, then your monthly fee to access the internet can be as high as $100 . With IE in the market , the browser market reach to an equilibrium level, i.e IE has 60% while NSCP has 40%, that is why the price of browser is cheap today. So, IE really give consumers more choice. So, what is wrong with it ? DOJ filed suit against MSFT to help NSCP's monopoly in the browser market. How strange it is !!!!!!!!