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[limburgeraktienclub]

Was haben die Deutschen mit Bill Gates vor........




Spass beiseite was passiert mit Microsoft in Zukunft?

Bleiben wir Deutschen bei Microsoft..( als Anleger).?
Seht Ihr Chancen bei der Zerschlagung des Unternehmens in 4 Teilbereichen?

Meinungen erbeten...


Mfg Andy

http://www.limburgeraktienclub.de

[bolko78]

die amis sind bekloppt genug, um ihr bestes stueck zu zertruemmern,
aber das sollte nicht hindern bei der stange zu bleiben oder jetzt
einzusteigen, trotz konkurrenz werden die einzelteile gegebenenfalls
eine nette eigendynamik entwickeln.

[limburgeraktienclub]

wars das schon mit Meinungen.......?
N8

[smiling]

Hallo!

Letzte News zu Microsoft!

Top Financial News
Fri, 28 Apr 2000, 5:13pm EDT
Microsoft Breakup Into Two Companies Sought by U.S. (Update1)
By James Rowley


Washington, April 28 (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp. should be
split into two companies, one that sells the Windows operating
system and one that sells applications, U.S. and state officials
told the judge who declared the company an antitrust violator.

The breakup of the world`s biggest software company would be
the first of a U.S. monopoly since the eight-way split of American
Telephone and Telegraph Co. in 1984.

The U.S. Justice Department and most of the 19 states in the
landmark antitrust case asked U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield
Jackson to order Microsoft to devise a breakup plan. One company
would make the Windows operating system, which powers 95 percent
of the world`s personal computers; the other would produce
software applications such as the popular Microsoft Office suite
and provide Internet services such as Microsoft Network.
``Under our proposal, neither ongoing government regulation
nor the self-interest of an entrenched monopolist will decide what
is best for consumers,`` Joel I. Klein, the Justice Department`s
antitrust chief.

The proposal was filed in court and released by the Justice
Department after the close of financial markets. Shares of
Microsoft, which have fallen nearly 25 percent since Jackson`s
April 3 ruling, dipped 1/16 to 69 3/4 in Nasdaq Stock Market
trading today. They rose to 70 1/8 after the Nasdaq closed.

The government proposed giving the Redmond, Washington
company four months to devise a breakup plan, which would be
implemented one year after all appeals in the case end.

Chairman Bill Gates and other top Microsoft executives could
own stock in only one of the two companies, while outside
shareholders would receive shares of both.

Temporary Fixes

The government also asked Jackson to immediately curb
Microsoft`s business practices while the software giant appeals
the imposition of any breakup plan, which could take a year or
two.

Microsoft has vowed to appeal Jackson`s decision to a federal
appeals court in Washington, though the judge has indicated he may
certify the case for immediate Supreme Court review.

During the interim period, Microsoft would be required to
disclose all software code needed to write applications that run
on Windows. Computer makers would also be freed from Microsoft`s
restrictions on how they configure the desktop, the screen that
computer users first see when the machine boots up.

Other curbs are intended to prevent Microsoft from bullying
computer makers to do its bidding. The interim conduct
restrictions include a ban on price discrimination among computer
makers. The company would be barred from conditioning the grant of
Windows licenses on a computer maker`s willingness to drop rival
products.

Increasingly Vocal

In increasingly vocal denunciations of a breakup, Gates,
Microsoft President Steve Ballmer and other company officials have
called the proposal radical and unjustified by the facts. At its
Freedom To Innovate Network Web site, Microsoft urges supporters
to send e-mails to elected officials voicing opposition to
breakup.
``Now is the time to let your elected officials know how you
feel about the case,`` the company said.

Jackson has given Microsoft until May 10 to file objections
to the proposed remedy and has scheduled a May 24 hearing.
Microsoft lawyers told the judge they would seek a lengthy
proceeding if the government proposed a breakup.

Jackson found that Microsoft bundled the browser into Windows
to repel competition from a rival browser made by Netscape
Communication Corp., now part of America Online Inc. Microsoft
argues that the integration of Internet Explorer into Windows was
a legitimate technological innovation.

The government`s plan would not stop such integration and the
operating system company could develop new software applications
for Windows or other operating systems.

Incentive Cited

Proponents of the plan say the new applications company would
have a strong economic incentive to produce programs that run on
rival operating systems such as Linux, a free product that is
marketed by such companies as Red Hat Inc. and VA Linux Systems
Inc. A proliferation of new applications that run on Linux or
other systems would help promote them as Windows competitors.

The availability of applications that run on a variety of
systems would break down the so-called ``applications barrier to
entry.`` Jackson found that barrier helped Microsoft preserve its
Windows monopoly.

Jackson found that Netscape`s Navigator browser was a threat
to the barrier because it might to proliferate software that
enables applications to run on any operating system.

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Also lassen wir das mal mit dem Richter Jackson, der gerade erst in mühevoller Heimarbeit den Doppelklick gelernt hat. Dafür gibt es in den USA Instanzen mit etwas qualifizierterem und weniger emphatischem Personal.
Eine Abtrennung von MS-Office wäre wohl für alle ein Glücksfall: bei diesem Programmpaket gibt es nichts mehr zu ver(schlimm-)bessern und eine völlige Integration der Komponenten ins Internet wäre längst überfällig.
Eine Stärke von Microsoft war, die Entwickler aller Couleur mit tollen Werkzeugen für sich zu gewinnen. Hier har Bill Gates wohl vor, wieder bei den Wurzeln zu beginnen: was im Moment am dringlisten fehlt ist eine gescheite (visuelle)Entwicklungsumgebung zur schnellen Erstellung von datenbankgebundenen, dynamischen Websites.
In den USA kann er auf eine getreue Heerschar von geübten Visual Basic Programmierern zurückgreifen, die statt ADO lediglich XLM Schnittstellen aufzurüfen hätten (was von denen eh niemand kapiert, Hauptsache es klappt).
Das Programm läßt sich dann auf die mobilen Pocket-PC mühelos übertragen und der Außendienst "ist auch schon drin".

Wenn bald die > 1 GHz Prozessoren kommen wird auch Windows 2000 einschlagen, einfach weil es wie Win98 funktioniert (keine Umschulung wie beispielsweise für LINUX) und die gleichen Sicherheitsfeatures wie Windows NT besitzt, das ist halt für Firmen immer noch am wichtigsten. Klappt es dann noch mit der Integration von XML in Visual Studio 7 sehe ich MSFT wieder bei $150 völlig umabhängig von der Firmenstruktur.