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To: damniseedemons who wrote (22438)	1/20/1999 6:43:00 PM
From: Keith Hankin	Respond to of 24154

Sure, but you're still missing the point that the mass-market world desires one standard/dominant OS. (Or at least multiple OSes with share common interfaces.) Splitting MSFT into multiple, identical companies would handle this problem. Another solution is for applications to be built upon non-OS-specific APIs for which libraries are available to map the calls to the native OS API calls. This is the solution provided by Java and many third-party cross-platform development tools.

To: damniseedemons who wrote (22438)	1/23/1999 5:39:00 AM
From: Doug Fowler	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Sal: While Microsoft has not raised the price of Windows or Office over the past three years, the percentage of the cost of a system has risen dramatically. Today, you can buy a very well equipped PC for under $1000 and even pretty nice systems for $500. Yet, Microsoft continues to charge $80 to $90 for Windows and $200 for the Office upgrade. Sure, OEM prices per seat for Windows are less than $80, but they are still about the same as three years ago. I'm becoming more convinced that the government is going to do something to break Microsoft's grip on Windows. A breakup is starting to look likely.