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

To: John F. Dowd who wrote (27383)	7/26/1999 7:43:00 PM
From: John F. Dowd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

To All: So much for the SLOWdown!...Here is someone who agrees with me- now a few months ago he wasn't talking like this but the PC is the TV of the present and the future. Now if PC demand is going up is this going to hurt MSFT. Windows 98 is paid for the costs associated therewith are small from hereon out. Another buying opportunity. By the way MSFT keeps sending me a new code cracking Instant Messenger every time AOL changes the protocol. MSFT is hacking AOL a new O in AOL. From Andrew Server at Fortune: "PC DEMAND.... Did you see that, according to IDC, demand for PCs climbed 26%? Now does this strike anyone besides me as a little strange? I mean, you have all these industry pundits and CEOs talking about how the PC slowdown is about to hit, and then BOOM! We're up 26%. I mean Mr. Bill himself was talking last week about the coming slowdown in PCs. Woe is me. The end is near. Right! Give me a break! These guys are always crying wolf. Every spring they say that this year is it -- the year PC growth is going to slow. And you know what, it doesn't. Grows 15%-plus every year. And I'll tell you something else. These folks who say that the PC is going to get replaced by Palms, set-top boxes, TVs or microwave ovens are kidding themselves. No way. No way in the world, especially in the workplace, that the PC is going away. I mean, all this stuff will augment PCs, not replace them. And as for PCs being powerful enough for the applications available today, also BS. Why? Simple -- every three years or so people have to have a new PC on their desk. It's like cars. They just get old, obsolete. Hell, they make cars much better today than they did 10 years ago; people still buy new ones just as often. (Never mind international expansion!) PCs forever, baby! (And that's not to say Palms forever, too! Heck, they sold 1 million of them already, and did a single one of them get sold instead of a PC? I think not!)" JFD