Would you consider buying $1000 worth of ether
NO
when its between like $8-$10 USD
NO, if it is around $1-$2 i may consider buying some but not before that. it is still expensive and what i see in the market is just dump with dead cat bounces.
hoping the price fluctuates to $200-$300 per coin over time?
the day i start making decision based on hope is the day i lose money.
also it will never reach $200-$300 at the very best if everything comes into place and stars line up the price can go up to $20
Also do you believe ether will become more & more popular as time goes on?
i believe a coin that started by spamming (advertising itself) and spamming FUD about bitcoin to increase the investment in ETH lacks real value that does these things to get popularity.
so it will not become popular in the future either.
Finally I read online Microsoft has began experimenting how they could apply ethereum/decentrilzed market to better their company? Any other information you'd like to share feel free!
microsoft is playing around with a lot of altcoin these days, apparently!!