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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly?
MSFT 477.74-2.5%Dec 3 3:59 PM EST
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To: DiViT who wrote (51519)10/18/2000 5:12:58 PM
From: nommedeguerre  Read Replies (1) of 74651
 
Divit,

"Define: "normal end-user"

Nearly all consumers and business users who have no desire whatsoever to maintain and administer complex software environments on individual desktops. An increase in bandwidth and improved security over the Net are all that is needed. Do you really think corporate America loves to maintain an inhouse staff of reboot, reinstall gurus? How is that productive?

When the monthly fees for an ASP fall below that of the IT staff budget performing the same services, it is goodbye IT staff. I'm typing this in IE on a network hooked into a SUN server via WinNT; which part of my PC is storing this post for Silicon Investor? I cannot access this network from home but I will be able to access SI and monitor this thread without any reference to this PC.

My IT cost for maintaining the How High thread is nil. With an optical network and high-speed servers why couldn't this be an Excel or Word document I was entering over the Internet? Start it at work, finish it at home without maintaining two copies of everything; in fact without maintaining even a single copy of Excel or Word. Let the ASP's handle that for me. I think I represent a fairly normal-user who just wants to use software in the simplest manner possible.

Cheers,

Norm
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