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

To: Teflon who wrote (19933)	4/7/1999 3:49:00 PM
From: RTev	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Does this really have the potential to drive MSFT's bottom line? Interesting approach. Obviously, they're changing a bit with the market. They know that they can't take direct control of this new "device" market, but don't want anyone else setting standards for its future. It sounds like they won't be making money from this networking "standard" (which probably isn't), but if they can control the way devices connect to one another, they have a much better chance of controlling what happens with all those devices, and of making sure that Windows CE or its inevitable Microsoft replacement is a part of most of the devices. I suspect Microsoft's advantage -- even if this is, as they say, "almost totally technically agnostic" -- would be that this is something defined, something that Microsoft understands, something that Microsoft controls to some extent, and, therefore, something that MS can use to give CE devices an edge from the start. It will be interesting to hear what tech folks say about the claim "UPNP can work with devices running any operating system...". Do you think folks might discover that although it will work OK with Java/Jini or PalmOS that it for some reason works best with Windows CE?