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

To: Ibexx who wrote (12571)	11/24/1998 6:53:00 PM
From: yard_man	Respond to of 74651

>> get ahead of the pack << Heck, I just want to get out of the way of the pack. I know where they are headed! Thanks and enjoy, Tippet

To: Ibexx who wrote (12571)	11/24/1998 6:55:00 PM
From: yard_man	Respond to of 74651

So a company that is making some money (MSFT) is teaming up with a company that can't, AMZN. What does this do for MSFT? Doesn't look like to me that it will make soft any more profitable -- what am I missing?

To: Ibexx who wrote (12571)	12/7/1998 6:08:00 AM
From: markanth	Respond to of 74651

Microsoft may put Gates on stand By Bloomberg News Special to CNET News.com December 4, 1998, 5:25 p.m. PT Microsoft is considering putting chairman Bill Gates on the witness stand to restore his credibility with the judge in the landmark antitrust trial against the world's biggest software maker. Microsoft general counsel William Neukom said "it's possible that we'll call him" as a rebuttal witness to refute the government's case against the company, which has portrayed Gates as the mastermind behind a pattern of predatory behavior. Each side can call two rebuttal witnesses in addition to their 12 already scheduled witnesses. In videotaped testimony played during the trial Gates has appeared evasive and combative, prompting Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson to express some skepticism about the chief executive's credibility. Gates himself has hinted in recent weeks that he might want to take the stand, complaining that government lawyers were putting words in his mouth. "Bill would take that opportunity to explain why he was being so cautious" in his taped pre-trial testimony, Neukom said during a private conference call to update analysts on the trial. A Microsoft spokeswoman told CNET News.com late today that she could not confirm the comments because she was not listening on the analysts' call. "As Microsoft has said all along, both sides certainly have the legal opportunity to call Bill Gates as a witness," she added. Neukom defended Gates's delivery of his taped testimony, saying it originally was intended only for closed-door replay, not public dissemination. "If the pretrial procedure had been different, Bill might have responded differently," Neukom said. Microsoft stands accused by the U.S. Justice Department and 20 states of using predatory practices to extend its monopoly in computer operating systems to the Internet, crushing rival such as Netscape Communications. The trial started Oct. 19.