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

To: ToySoldier who wrote (16124)	2/16/1999 12:58:00 PM
From: Rusty Johnson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

The perfect solution ... MSFT writes a version of Word, Excel, and Office for Linux. It seems that not being able to use Word/Excel is the only excuse for not switching to a faster, cheaper, better, more reliable operating system. Microsoft has a version of Office for Apple computers. If Windows is the superior OS ... so be it. Let the market decide. Microsoft should have no objection. All they do is write "great" and "innovative" software right? People choose IE because it is superior to Netscape right? OK, how about simply offering Excel for Linux? It's the only MSFT application I use anyway. Linux ... the best things in life are free.

To: ToySoldier who wrote (16124)	2/16/1999 2:43:00 PM
From: DownSouth	Respond to of 74651

- Many of you are not in the industry and may not see it, but if you are you will see that the vast majority of their product successes have had a big "compatibility with our Desktop OS - how bout our competitors products" imposed threat. Not said but implied strongly. BS, Toy. That is the perspective of competitors that lost to MSFT, not from the customers who made the decision. Competitors, like NOVL, WordPerfect, Lotus refused to deliver Windows products. Then, when they finally were forced to because MSFT was delivering products that matched and beat their products feature for feature, but in a Windows environment, they refused to take their stupid heads out of the sand and COMPETE. Instead, they cried foul and blamed MSFT for their own mistakes. That's the perspective of THIS guy who was in the industry when you were graduating from the 6th grade. Your perspective is so tainted by your IBM culture, its sad.