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

To: Mitch Blevins who wrote (29156)	9/5/1999 2:42:00 AM
From: Teflon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Excellent point, Mitch. I really didn't think of it that way... Teflon

To: Mitch Blevins who wrote (29156)	9/5/1999 11:58:00 AM
From: ed	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 74651

Well, When a product(s) is bundled with other product, you can call they are free or they are not , and which is part of the price of the total package, depending on how you call it. For me , I will continue to pay less than $100 ( say, upgrade every four to five year) every year to use the Microsoft Office, because 1) Less than $100 is a very small portion of my budget 2) I want to use a software which most people are using 3) Trust, Microsoft will continue to improve its product with deep pocket, and I want to use a product of quality and which will be continue improved from time to time, and guarantee compatibility as office being improved continuously and new features being added. Yes, Star office may be competible today , then how about tomorrow or two years from now when the new features of Microsoft Office and Microsoft other products being added ? Should I switch back to Microsoft Office again then ? And at that time how can I convert the Star Office based file to Microsoft Office's format ? If I can't, then I am completely skewed up. SUNW is frighten to death at this moment on the eve that Mercede 64 bit processor is ready to be released with powerful NT OS. Most of the companies will switch to the new system as far as I know, because the Unix system is hard to use for most of the non computer professionals, even the professionals, and need a lot of training. But for Window based system , is a different story, because we all use WIN 98 at home , at work and in school. I am afraid a lot Unix folks will lose their jobs as a result, that is why we have so many Microsoft haters on this thread. Sunw' Java will not fly at all, because 90% of the PC are using Microsoft's window, not Unix, and CE is a simplified version of Microsoft Window, and no compatability problem when talk to PCs.