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

To: Art Bechhoefer who wrote (33603)	11/10/1999 9:04:00 AM
From: ericneu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

My only dispute is that, having used many Microsoft products, including both Windows 95 and Windows 98, I fail to see why Microsoft thinks these products and the accompanying applications are so wonderful. I get mysterious crashes on a regular basis. I find that some of the operations that the user must perform are nothing less than arcane. I personally prefer the smooth, robust, nearly crash free performance of the Macintosh. --- Remember, Microsoft doesn't control the hardware its operating systems run on - Apple does. This makes a phenomenal difference in the ability to control the stability of the system. Last I heard, Windows 9x supported over seven thousand video cards. Extend that across BIOSes, sound cards, network cards, and more. Writing to a known hardware platform is a tremendous advantage. Ask any old IBM mainframe engineer. - Eric