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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly?

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To: ProDeath who wrote (44629)	5/11/2000 1:13:00 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) of 74651

You say The poor reliability and erratic behavior of MS desktop software makes it expensive to support as well as infuriating and antagonistic to many end users. And that would be in comparison to what desktop software? I'm really curious. While the Mainframe terminals like the 3280 were pretty trouble free, likewise the VT100 and its descendents, there were few tears shed when they were replaced by PCs. Unix workstations may have some advantages in a few situations (trading desks being one that I am familiar with), but NT based workstations now have similar capability for those uses, and also are at least as reliable and non-erratic, and as a result are rapidly replacing Unix boxes in many of those situations. Aside from that, your statement seems pretty abstract. More erratic than what? Less reliable than what?

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