Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

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

To: Dan Lazare who wrote (16850)	2/24/1999 9:48:00 AM
From: RTev	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Microsoft provides daily transcripts here: microsoft.com For direct testimony and briefs: usdoj.gov or microsoft.com Both sites include exhibits. The Microsoft site also includes some of the most artful PR flak ever seen in dealing with "bad" days in court. If you need a rosy view of things, ignore all news reports and read their summaries. Does the spate of Linux shipments bolster Microsoft's defense? Sure. Microsoft claims that it's a constantly shifting market with low barriers to entry. They would argue that IBM's shipment of Linux is another sign that MS might lose the OS market any day now. The government would respond much like many of the posters on this board by pointing out that high barriers including network effects work against Linux as a desktop competitor and by pointing out that all the companies shipping Linux are putting it on machines configured as servers, that the machines are not being sold into the desktop OS market in which DOJ claims MS holds the monopoly. They might also argue that Microsoft loosened the requirements of its OEM licenses in response to DOJ pressure, but used the more restrictive licenses during the time at issue in the trial.