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

To: Jill who wrote (29236)	9/7/1999 4:30:00 PM
From: RTev	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

If I didn't have a free ISP through a university, I'd probably do it--and might do so eventually anyway. The time has come! Be warned though: If you get a high-speed connection, you'll never be able to go back to a modem. [Watch this: I'm about to swing this discussion back almost on topic.] Right now, I'm listening to an album from Yahoo's broadcast.com playing on Windows Media Player. Stats tell me that the "56K" broadcast is actually coming across as 66K with barely a hint of congestion buffering. That's half of what a CD would be but still good enough to be a pleasant listening experience. Using the net becomes a different experience with broadband. Other examples: I would never have considered downloading StarOffice the other day using a modem, but at 640kbps, it's no big deal. Last night, I even used a scary service at ZDNet that scanned my hard disk and told me what programs on my disk have upgrades available. It reminded me that I hadn't yet updated to NT SP5, so I grabbed that along with several other upgrades I'd neglected. I've even bought a few software packages recently, including Macromedia Dreamweaver, by download. There doesn't seem much point anymore in getting the paper box and manual that I'll probably never read when I can get the product so quickly on the net. Once one starts using the net in this way, it's only a small step to using it in the way that both Sun and Microsoft (and others) envision, with just-in-time downloads of software components.

To: Jill who wrote (29236)	9/7/1999 6:47:00 PM
From: John F. Dowd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Jill: Where is your neighborhood in NY? That is a large state. JFD