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

To: The Commander who wrote (23958)	6/10/1999 10:58:00 AM
From: Deliveryman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

What it means is, for example, if you get an email with a font that you don't have, it will try and download it from the MSFT site automatically. Being internet all the time makes it quite seemless. I get a file (AVI for example) that needs a protocol I don't already have installed, and it just downloads it and installs it in the background. State of the art!

To: The Commander who wrote (23958)	6/10/1999 10:59:00 AM
From: RTev	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

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... I haven't used it yet, but that seems to be the idea. I believe there's even a way to unload things you loaded and used once, but haven't used recently. Of course, all of that would work best if you're using a maching connected to a network since your machine could get the components from a server. If you're not, you'd better keep the CD-ROM handy.

To: The Commander who wrote (23958)	6/10/1999 11:54:00 AM
From: ericneu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

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. --- That's exactly what it means. When you install Office 2000 (or configure a standard installation for your network) you can specify on a per-feature basis whether to install it, install on-demand, run from server, or not to install. If you then try to use a feature that's set for install on-demand (say, you're trying to spell-check something in French) it will automatically install the needed code. In a single-user environment it will ask for the CD - on a network it will get the code from the original install point. - Eric