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

To: Andy Thomas who wrote (18997)	3/26/1999 11:27:00 PM
From: DownSouth	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74651

MSFT has enriched its employees and shareholders at the expense of the advancement computing in general. Young Andy. I have been in computing for 30 years. I am still in computing. When MSFT created the de facto standards at a fundamental level, they fulfilled the goals that the computing community had been trying in vain to reach for decades. The result was a very sudden explosion in creativity, entrepeneurship, employment, and access to computing by the masses. What state would computing be if the DECs, IBMs, Sperrys, and even Apples of the world continued to pretend that they were promoting standards when what they were really doing was participating in standards decisions to scuttle the whole process for their proprietary architectural interests? You know not of what you speak.