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

To: t2 who wrote (22783)	5/17/1999 2:52:00 PM
From: Teflon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

t2k, the trial is irrelevant. This consolidation in MSFT's share price is purely technical. It happened last year as we headed into June, and we are seeing the same exact pattern this year. Remember, the stock doubled while surviving some of the worst PR possible that was generated by the DOJ case. Again, this consolidation is purely technical; in the long run it is best for the long term health of MSFT's stock to endure this churn. We are almost finished with the process. MSFT will head higher in the short term. Dell may be the catalyst to push it forward. Teflon

To: t2 who wrote (22783)	5/17/1999 5:32:00 PM
From: Deliveryman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Jackson Suggestion Spawns Scenarios For Ending of Microsoft Antitrust Case By JOHN R. WILKE Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WASHINGTON -- On March 31, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson called the lawyers in the Microsoft Corp. antitrust trial into his chambers in the federal courthouse here. Just a month earlier, in a similar meeting, he had gently nudged both sides to find a way to settle the case. This time, with no settlement in sight, he was suggesting one way to get there. With the eight lawyers -- two or three each from Microsoft, the Justice Department and the states suing the company -- gathered around his desk, the judge asked: Why not just let personal-computer makers and consumers pick the software they want on new machines? Judge Jackson offered the idea as "something you might want to consider,"