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

To: PMS Witch who wrote (23576)	6/3/1999 3:03:00 PM
From: John F. Dowd	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

PMSW: Indeed we know not the hour. I thought this article very noteworthy in as much as it was published in a normally anti MSFT publication "Tech Web News". The point being that MSFT doesn't need to act in the manner it is accused of - it succeeds by producing better products and never quits in its attempts to improve the breed. I suppose to the current administration such concepts are anathema: "....Another factor is that the open-source project has attracted fewer developers than some expected. Make no mistake--there's some very high-quality talent working on Mozilla. But it's not insane to ask if there's enough talent to meet even the pushed-back deadlines. It's taken the Mozilla team six months to reach Milestone 5; by Mozilla.Org's own internal reckoning, there are 13 major milestones to go before the anticipated final release of Milestone 18 on Dec. 17. The first steps are always the hardest, but can the Mozillans realistically expect to complete 13 additional major milestones in less than six months? Meanwhile, Microsoft's Internet Explorer has taken the lead in enterprise browsing; it's now clearly the numeric leader. Internet Explorer 5's quality is actually quite good, and despite its flaws, it's more standards-compliant than are the shipping versions of Communicator and Navigator. And in a surprising turnaround, many experienced users are finding Internet Explorer to be more stable than the current Netscape offerings. For example, well-known developer and president of UserLand Software Dave Winer said: "After installing 4.5, it'll be a while before I trust Netscape again. The software is fraught with problems, while Microsoft's browser appears to be stabilizing." JFD