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To: Stormweaver who wrote (18201)	7/26/1999 7:01:00 PM
From: cheryl williamson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Gee, it looks like the CFO of MSFT agrees with me too... G. Maffei CFO/MSFT: "The trend toward sub-$1,000 PCs will make it less likely that computer makers will want to pre-load Microsoft's software before the units are sold. Buyers of cheap PCs, who will likely use them for the Internet, are also less likely to buy additional software from Microsoft." It also looks like Turbo-Linux is outselling Windoze '98 in Japan: news.com

To: Stormweaver who wrote (18201)	7/27/1999 12:42:00 AM
From: paul	Respond to of 64865

Im not sure someone who plunks down $399 for a perfectly fine emachines is going to be splurging for MS Office Bloatware 2005 and join "hobbyists" like yourself in celebrating biannual OS upgrades to keep themselves "computer literate". Microsofts recent investments in cable and applications outsourcing probably means they think theyve milked this cow as far as they can as well. My Dell PC (pentium 133) came with MS office and i havent spent a penny on Microsoft software since 1996 - I guess the only thing it did was prevent me from buying a competitors office suite by bundling it with the OS ...hmmm...maybe that was the point. Anyway I do more "writing" within Netscape than I do in Word so the value of a word processor or any desktop application is pretty much squat.