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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Christine Traut who wrote (5913)	6/6/1999 10:32:00 PM
From: C.K. Houston	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9818

<The CD may take up to six weeks to be mailed.> LOL - What are the odds that they're gonna do that - within 6 weeks??? My guess is that they're gonna delay. Otherwise, some people will have to keep on spending that $6 postage over and over again until ... What have they been truthful about so far? You and I realize what's going on, and wouldn't waste our $6 to order a CD at this point in the game. But, Joe Six-Pack, who's off the net ... doesn't. IMHO - They're doing whatever they can to keep stock price up prior to that Office 2000 intro. I'm gonna be real curious to see how they promote this CD. How well publicized it is in mainstream media. If Microsoft sends letters out to registered customers, etc. Is Microsoft gonna run a full-page ad directing customers to their "Y2K Solution"? I think not. This reminds me of something I encountered many, many years ago when I was in advertising. (I was an Account Executive back in the 70's on the Bank of America account, when they were first introducing the VISA credit card - before bank credit cards existed.) Attorney's told us to place one-time ads in some very small markets, to establish ourselves for copyright purposes. Granted, Microsoft didn't place an ad. It's just funny that this article was published in a small market. Why? Seems it has relevance to many. [WHOOPS Just saw it was in San Antonio. So, it's not a small market. Nonetheless, am curious to see how this plays out.] David Stockwell said this ... Microsoft stopped development of 16 bit windows many years ago. I wouldn't expect them to make win 3.1 y2k compliant....> If true - what are the 3.1 users gonna get for their $6? This is too, too funny. Cheryl