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

To: drmorgan who wrote (19071)	3/28/1999 12:52:00 PM
From: RTev	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 74651

Here's an indication of the sort of settlement the states are looking for in the trial (and why we're unlikely to see a settlement before the trial resumes): States want Microsoft to auction off Windows coding seattletimes.com Highlights: ...the Redmond software corporation should be forced to auction off one of its most valuable possessions: the secret blueprints for the Windows operating system... The 19 states' plan, obtained by The Seattle Times, is titled "Remedies Re: Microsoft Litigation" and also proposes that government regulators receive ongoing access to the company's e-mail and documents and that Microsoft seek government approval before acquiring any software companies. ... After the Windows auction, the intellectual property rights would be transferred to possibly two or three companies. Microsoft would be permitted to market and further develop its own version of Windows, while Microsoft shareholders would get "reasonable compensation" through the auction. ... [Concerning Microsoft's proposals submitted for the Tuesday meeting,] ... another government official said that if the Microsoft document was merely a place to "start the conversation" and there was more to come, this week's talks could result in a deal. ... The Software and Information Industry Association, which represents 1,400 computer-industry companies, dismissed the forced-licensing idea in favor of a more far-reaching structural breakup.

To: drmorgan who wrote (19071)	3/28/1999 10:21:00 PM
From: Gerald Walls	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

So is MSFT charges somewhere in that $42 neighborhood you'll still be paying around $65 (+/- several bucks) per month for "high speed" service. I believe that AOL's deal includes AOL access. You are correct, though, that without this deal companies like Useless Worst (US West) charge $40/month for 256 kbps access alone, ISP extra. Considering that high-speed cable access costs the seven people nationwide who can get it nationwide, of which I am not one, about the same for four times or more the speed and includes the ISP charge (you are stuck with theirs, though) then one may conclude that the phone companies are charging an unrealistic price.