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Technology Stocks : MSFT (Microsoft) vs. DOJ (Department of Justice) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bearded One who wrote (139)	1/25/1999 11:43:00 AM
From: odd lot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 185

Re: Price of Operating Systems Those silly consumers. Paying extra for soda due to all the choices. Paying more money for fast food at McDonalds due to the presence of Burger King. Unbelievable. My comments apply to pc's and os's, not coke and hamburgers. MSFT's strategy is to grow the marketplace by keeping prices "reasonable." They make their insane profits thru huge volume. Do you really think that pc's would be cheaper if Dell et al gave you a choice of os's? Right now, the OEM's pay about $50 per copy of Windows. There's not much room to cut costs through os competitition. If the OEM's had to accomodate other operating systems, do you think a pc would be cheaper? I don't. Of course, there is the concern that once the market is saturated, MSFT will serve up big price increases. I'm sure they will try, but how much can they raise prices? Wouldn't this attract many competitors?

To: Bearded One who wrote (139)	1/30/1999 9:03:00 PM
From: Rusty Johnson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 185

Trial papers to be public WASHINGTON -- A federal appeals court has ordered the public release of the depositions taken for the Microsoft antitrust trial, opening a trove of information about the software giant and the computer industry. Lawyers for both sides gathered pretrial testimony from at least 50 people -- an exact count was not available Friday -- including such Silicon Valley notables as Netscape co-founders Jim Clark and Marc Andreessen as well as executives at computer manufacturers Hewlett-Packard Co. and Network Computer Inc. and software maker Santa Cruz Operation Inc. Little of that material has found its way into the trial -- with the notable exception of eight hours of videotaped excerpts of Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates. The court's order would also open the full Gates deposition, which lasted 22 hours over three days. All the material must be reviewed to see if it contains confidential company trade secrets, so any public release is weeks away, possibly longer if Microsoft appeals. mercurycenter.com