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

To: limtex who wrote (16130)	2/16/1999 3:28:00 PM
From: Claude	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

You know its funny how nobody says Chrysler or GM or Honda or Toyota didn't invent the car. This is irrelevant. And for all Toy's talk about innovation, well as long as the management of the company that I invest in can see which 'innovation' can be turned into a marketable product and do what needs to be done to make it so then fine by me. I'm not advocating anticompetitive practices - the browser integration may have crossed the line but I'm really not sure. I also invest in CSCO and look at all the startups they gobble up. Is this killing the telecom industry Toy? Toy many of your arguments are simplistic and naive. And I fail to see how what MSFT has done has stifled the industry - if anything we are seeing rapid increases in technology advancement thanks to the unified platform windows has provided. This platform will one day be outgrown - buts its a ways off yet. We are investing in companies, this is not a social cause. Well for Toy maybe it is... Claude (rhymes with TOAD)

To: limtex who wrote (16130)	2/17/1999 3:25:00 AM
From: Dragonfly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

MSFT however it got there isdoing a great job for all us users. The hell they are. Have you ever met a non-programmer who liked Microsoft software? Ok, any who have ever used another OS, such as Mac OS who prefer Microsoft? The reality is, for normal people, (such as my non-computer friends and my parents) they hate windows, and when given a chance, switch. Hence, iMac sales are huge and over %40 of the purchasers are either first time PC buyers or people switching from Windows. Its only by the propagation of myths (like Macs are more expensive, Macs are slower, Windows is just as easy to use) that anyone uses windows.