Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!ccu.umanitoba.ca!herald.usask.ca!alberta!aunro!aupair.cs.athabascau.ca!atha!decwrl!pacbell.com!ucsd!qualcom.qualcomm.com!maui.qualcomm.com!rdippold From: rdippold@maui.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc Subject: Re: Microsoft vs. the Feds Message-ID: <1991Mar13.235458.17032@qualcomm.com> Date: 13 Mar 91 23:54:58 GMT References: <1991Mar12.185141.4559@en.ecn.purdue.edu> <1991Mar12.223049.3796@qualcomm.com> Sender: news@qualcomm.com Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA Lines: 27 In article valley@uchicago (Doug Dougherty) writes: >rdippold@maui.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold) writes: > >>In article <1991Mar12.185141.4559@en.ecn.purdue.edu> stevew@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Steven L Wootton) writes: >>> >>>CNN is reporting that Microsoft is being investigated for anti-trust >>>violations. This has caused the value of their stock to fall 1/2 on NYSE >>>today. They aren't reporting anything else yet. >>> >>>Anyone know what this is about? > >>I would say that they've got a pretty good case vis a vis Microsoft using >>their position as the operating system supplier to leverage their way in the >>applications markets. All from a "back seat lawyer" perspective here, of >>course. > >Yup. And the stock dropped another 3 1/2 yesterday... > >Could drop quite a bit further, too. Not that I'm recommending any >short selling. No, not at all... To follow up on this, according to this week's InfoWorld, Microsoft worked long and hard to get other companies to market some multimedia programs for Windows so it could get accepted as a multimedia tool. The companies are now selling these products, which cost about a couple thousand dollars. Now Microsoft has decided that it's going to sell software that does the same stuff. For $80.