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

To: limtex who wrote (38016)	2/17/2000 11:54:00 AM
From: Valley Girl	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Thanks, you convinced me not to try W2K on my laptop for a while yet. NT's never been very good as a laptop OS, though, so I don't think W2K makes matters much worse. Bottom line for laptop happiness is stay with 98. I have W2K running happily on my desktop machine.

To: limtex who wrote (38016)	2/17/2000 12:11:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 74651

Well, as Harry Callahan might say, I guess you felt lucky. Sorry to hear about your experience. Mildly funny related story, overhead a guy in Best Buy a couple days ago, talking to a salesman or support guy about his PC hanging randomly, figuring it was the modem or some other flaky hardware. I resisted the temptation to recommend reformat and reinstall Windows, figuring they'd just think me a smart alec, which would be true enough, but irrelevant in this case. Works for me, every time, and it's been more than a few. All part of the integrity and uniformity of the Windows experience. NT is better, though, and I'm sure Win2000 will be better too, but buying a retail upgrade, now, is somewhat counterintuitive. Cheers, Dan.