>You are confusing concepts here. Purchasing a good or service from a company is not the same as investing in a company.

Right. You can get all the investors you want, but when no one buys products from you, you crash and burn. The real money is much more imprtant than the fake money.

>FYI. The stock exchange market is NOT 100% unpredictable.

Well, its guesable. But its not predictable. Check out http://www.exploratorium.edu/turbulent/exhibit/criticality.html

In order to accuractely estimate what the next grain of said will do to your mound, you need to know the exact history of every grain in the mound. Its impossible to predict. Anyone that says they can is a con artist.

>Companies purchases goods and services from another company based on several selection criteria - usefulness of product, price, quality of services, vendor reputation, etc. If Microsoft develops new products after a .NET failure, some companies will buy it based on their own selection criteria.

Thats an awfully big IF. Of course this is all in the hypothetical situation that .NET fails, which I don't think it will.