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

To: ed who wrote (15747)	2/10/1999 4:17:00 AM
From: RTev	Respond to of 74651

Why do you guys think MSFT will lose at this point ? I'm not a lawyer, so I could well be surprised, but coverage of the trial suggests to me that the government made a good (but not great) case and manages to strengthen it with each Microsoft witness who takes the stand. But then again... Disclosure about where I'm coming from while I type this in IE on an NT server machine packed with MS software: I was a fan of Netscape from the beginning, largely because I think Jim Clark had one of those shattering visions that produces profound change. I did and do admire what he did at Netscape. Even though I worked at MS at the time (and therefore owned more and more stock), I hated to see Netscape losing as they did, so I could just have a skewed view of the trial and I admit I don't have a full grasp of the arcane laws involved. I get my impression of the case from occasional stories in the Seattle Times, the more frequent coverage on ZDNet, and occasional stories in Salon or Slate. But I also bring to what I hear my experience of working at Microsoft for several years and working on staff at a law firm doing antitrust cases for years before that.