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

To: t2 who wrote (21563)	4/25/1999 1:08:00 PM
From: t2	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

MSFT vetoed move of CFO Maffei to Roadrunner. The speculation is on to find out where he will be headed (obviously a company which MSFT does not influence). I am trying to figure out why the veto was excercised when they know he will be ticked off and leave anyways. By the way he has been with them only 2 years--seems like longer. Does he know something about MSFT's long term plans that may be a threat to the company's strategic planning? Is it to prevent to prevent him from getting on the DOJ's witness list somehow (i doubt this idea is behind it) in the very near future? Maybe if he is at MSFT, his stock options would make sure he has an economic interest to be loyal to the company but if he was to leave, there could be a lot of damage. Just wondering. quote.bloomberg.com

To: t2 who wrote (21563)	4/25/1999 1:13:00 PM
From: t2	Respond to of 74651

Just look at the revenue expected from Windows2000. They will blow aways estimates of earning once it is released---I will be betting on it!!! Quote from the story below: A company with 10,000 desktops would pay around $788,500 for the workstation and mid-sized server software, at list prices, said analyst Dan Kusnetzky of International Data Corp. He noted that Microsoft gives discounts to corporate customers, depending on their size quote.bloomberg.com