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

To: blankmind who wrote (16041)	2/15/1999 10:52:00 AM
From: ToySoldier	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74651

blankmind, You starting figuring it out. When #1 does it - depending on what "IT" is - it is illegal! That is the concept that so many people have trouble grasping. What has MSFT done that is illegal? You havent been following the trial. When a company (MSFT) that has a clear monopoly of the desktop OS marketshare (DOS/WIndows/Win9x with estimates of 90%+ of the marktetshare)uses its monopoly in that marketshare to take over marketshare in another technology - that is illegal. In this case MSFT, who realized that Netscape was the clear market leader in the Browser technology and that MSFT felt it needed to control that technology (for obvious reasons), it bought an Internet Browser and stuck it into its OS. It then gave it away free of charge and inserted installation tools so that it shows up as the default browser to install when the OS is installed. THAT IS ILLEGAL! Do you wish for me to go on? Toy

To: blankmind who wrote (16041)	2/15/1999 12:10:00 PM
From: Bearded One	Respond to of 74651

- all of MSFT's deals, tie-ins, etc.... are all legal and go on every day. Granted, it's more noticeable when #1 does it, but none of it was illegal. It's legal to stick your leg out. It's not legal to stick your leg out as someone's running past you to trip them. Arguments that what Microsoft did was legal ignore their intent and capabilities. They're Busted, and that's that.

To: blankmind who wrote (16041)	2/16/1999 2:13:00 AM
From: chirodoc	Respond to of 74651

blankmind i agree with you msft plays hardball and does have a monopoly on the desktop but with linux, unix, java, orcl, sunw, etc. there are enough challengers that they should leave things alone clinton didn't need to be censored the trial trashed his legacy at this point they have put msft under the microscope enough to slow them down, giving others a shot at competition imho, they should now leave msft alone but msft should have settled the day of the sunw/aol deal would have saved millions curtis