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

To: EepOpp who wrote (21869)	4/29/1999 11:50:00 PM
From: taxman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

"Microsoft ...[would] break apart the way it wants to...." and bill gates would still control all the pieces for me. regards

To: EepOpp who wrote (21869)	4/29/1999 11:54:00 PM
From: Sir Francis Drake	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Gates is a major shareholder of MSFT. If the co gets broken up, he just like other shareholders, would presumably end up with all the pieces. Now, that would (perhaps?) give him the same control over the new companies as he has now, by sheer share-voting power. This means basically, he would be coordinating all the individual companies - it would be the old MSFT, only now called M+S+F+T - but it would be mere semantics. Of course, I know that is not what would happen. They would somehow prevent him from doing that, sure - but whatever measure they'll devise... fairness, rationality and simplicity will be impossible to achieve.