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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ericneu who wrote (23922)	6/9/1999 7:58:00 PM
From: RTev	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

There are a lot of other benefits to Office 2000, but let me throw just one out (one of my personal favorites) - self-repairing applications. That is a big deal. It should help make the suite far more stable. Self-repairing setup was one of the major differences between Office 97 (for Windows) and Office 98 (for Macintosh). O98 will repair itself if a user gets creative and starts deleting system files. It proved to be a popular item in reviews of the product (with much help, of course, from the Microsoft product managers who are always happy to tell lazy reviewers what they should write). From what I've read, the setup engine being used on Office2000 is even more sophisticated. What's even better is that it's optimized for NT (Windows 2000), and will begin working even better when Office 2000 is running on that system, where users roaming from one machine to another within an organization will see their personal options (aka preferences) reflected on any machine. Another advantage of the new setup engine: Press stories claim (and I believe them, based on some early reviews) that it makes it far easier for organizations to rollout the product using customized network-based installations.

To: ericneu who wrote (23922)	6/10/1999 10:47:00 AM
From: The Commander	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74651

Office 2000 ... I haven't had much need for a self repairing Excel or Word, (YET!) Perhaps I'm just lucky. The 'load on demand' feature could prove quite interesting. Does this mean that you start O2K in a 'bare bones' configuration, and as you work, the needed components get loaded as needed, eventually giving you a system with the functionality you need, with no resources wasted on stuff you never use(d)? Thanks, Fred.