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

To: ericneu who wrote (33607)	11/10/1999 9:47:00 AM
From: Conky Lives!	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. msft has divided the os into essentially two business models. The first is targeted to consumers i.e. 95/98/etc, while the second (in theory, a more robust and less crash prone flavor) is targeted to the business community i.e NT. This leads to the following two well defined breakup candidates. Although, I suspect that perhaps NT may require further breakup into other components: Microsoft Consumer Software (Corp?) Windows 95, 98, and future 98 derivatives Microsoft Business Software (Corp?) Windows NT 3.51, 4.0, and future 4.0 derivatives