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Microsoft Tumbles (12/26/97)
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Wall Street's typically unshakeable confidence in Microsoft's stock took a small beating amid Department of Justice antitrust proceedings and the Redmond Giant's response to the judge's preliminary injunction. A Reuters story reports that MSFT fell over four dollars to a seven-month low of $118.94 last Christmas Eve (though when we checked on Boxing Day, it had bounced back to $120.75. You can always track Microsoft's stock here).

So while Microsoft's stock is still up a whopping 44% from this time last year, we find it noteworthy that it's down 19% since December 8th, which was just before Judge Jackson ordered Microsoft to stop forcing Windows licensees to ship Internet Explorer on all systems. Even analysts who support Microsoft's legal arguments are chafing at the way that Microsoft has "thumbed their nose at Justice." The harsh language criticizing Judge Jackson in Microsoft's court filings are symptomatic of an attitude problem-- them's fightin' words, and it seems some investors are getting just a leeeeetle nervous at Microsoft's apparent belief that they are invincible.

It'll be interesting to see how this plays out. On the Apple front, AAPL was hovering at $13.31 when last we checked. (We encourage all faithful viewers to vote their opinion on how the stock will perform by clicking the buttons at the bottom of Stockmaster's page.) Quite a bit of room for improvement, there, hmmmmm?

 
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The above scene was taken from the 12/26/97 episode:

December 26, 1997: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)

Other scenes from that episode:

  • 302: Excessive for a Temp? (12/26/97)   Well, the rumors have come true-- an AP story in the Las Vegas Sun reports that Steve Jobs has gotten the go-ahead from the the City Council to build a $40,000 heliport near Pixar to facilitate his commute...

  • 304: Live from Moscone (12/26/97)   For those of you who, like us, aren't fortunate enough to be attending the upcoming MacWorld Expo in San Francisco, there's a web option that might help us all keep up to date. MACWORLD Expo-TV is a CU-SeeMe-based webcast that will broadcasting live from the Moscone Convention Center throughout the show...

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