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

To: ToySoldier who wrote (16106)	2/16/1999 2:36:00 PM
From: limtex	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

TS - You're probably right about the amount of software actually 'invented' by MSFT. After all they didn't invenet word processing or spread sheets but they did nevertheless do a much better job marketing them and supporting them than many others. MSFT however it got there isdoing a great job for all us users. Maybe someone else could do it better but it would take a great deal of convincing to get me to change. As for porstals well I really don't think that the browser is quite as important as you have suggested. For instance as I said originally I use AOL not MSFT to access the web and I do it around the world as I am doing now. I could care less whose browser I use as longas I can get AOL. A much bigger concern for the whole indutry is that if I could get AOL on CE then I would probably get a hand held like a Journada with instant on/instant off. I would then not need a full blown lap-top!!! Soon Qualcomm is going to offer a really fancy wireless net access via MSFT and then the browser becomes even less important as the wirelss carrier is bound to introduce his own opening page with or without a browser. Regards, L