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

To: codawg who wrote (27081)	7/21/1999 9:25:00 PM
From: blankmind	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

- I think Tues's drop was just a healthy correction - as the Bull Market seems to be going full steam ahead - Having said that, I don't think MSFT can go back over 100 until they pay off the Clintonistas & get Reno to settle

To: codawg who wrote (27081)	7/22/1999 8:56:00 AM
From: Stormweaver	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

My suspicions are true about this freePC alternative OS crap; it will cost the providers so much in support that it's not worth it: ... short extract from SUNW thread... Yes, that would save the MS fee, but no, the free PC providers are not going to be loading Linux. Most of the customers lining up for the free PC offers barely know how to use a mouse. I was reading about one of the free PC outfits (I think its called DirectPC, in Philly) and they WAY underestimated the support requirements and had to abruptly scale back the rollout. (Some might say that was because they used Win98! ha!) Most people on SI don't understand the low level of computer illiteracy in the general population. The interface on a "free" PC has to be familiar, and for better or worse that is Win or Mac OS.