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Technology Stocks : Disk Drive Sector Discussion Forum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mark Oliver who wrote (7062)	9/7/1999 11:06:00 AM
From: Mark Madden	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9256

Mark, IMO Web based programs will not replace the need for hard drives to run applications software. The speed between today's hard drives and memory is more than six times faster than a cable modem operating in ideal conditions. Trying to respond to keystroke operations from a remote server would reduce performance. The Web-based Office Software Suite will likely be supplemental to an Office Suite residing on our local hard drives. It will allow people without much storage to install a slower version of Office extracts many of the rarely used files from the Web. It will also allow Microsoft to build specialty software that can supplement Office with less worry about the size of the overall program. Since people use the software differently, we would end up with different specialty software on our hard drives but we would not have it all. I vision our software purchases over the Web. This helps us by giving us the latest updated version instead of something that has been sitting in a box for a few months. It helps the software vendor by reducing selling costs and giving them more control over piracy. It may also be possible to lease storage over the Web for those that do not have disk space or for those that want access from any computer without networking. As you mentioned, we could store our desktop preferences and have them available from any computer. Increased bandwidth makes these options more viable. It will be interesting to see what new ideas come forth with the planned bandwidth increases. Mark M.