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

To: t2 who wrote (19180)	3/29/1999 5:40:00 PM
From: Offshore	Respond to of 74651

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To: t2 who wrote (19180)	3/29/1999 5:50:00 PM
From: Alan Buckley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

[The Office 2000 shipment is great news.] This makes Maffei's pre-announcement pushing the coupon revenue into future quarters less ambiguous by eliminating serious delays in Office 2000 as a motivation. It's possible it was a tax move and nothing more, but it could be he was trying to smooth out an up-spike that would be a tough comparison next year. The latter would bode well for this quarters earnings. It's my personal belief that the 24 straight years of increasing earnings is important to Gates. I bet he'd love to say "I ran MSFT for 30 years and never had a down year". He'd get a chapter in every MBA textbook for the next hundred years should he accomplish that. Up-spikes are a threat to such a goal.