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

To: Captain Jack who wrote (40822)	4/3/2000 7:05:00 PM
From: Fred Levine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Thanks Captain-- I'll try that. fred

To: Captain Jack who wrote (40822)	4/4/2000 2:57:00 AM
From: SunSpot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Reinstall WinCD? It's quite obvious, that you have only been using Windows intensively for the last couple of years. With *nux you can upgrade programs while they are in use (!), and you NEVER have to reboot. Computers are no more high-tech, fragile, experimental things. Uptimes less than 99% or failures in more than 1% of the cases is not acceptable. Sony Playstation shows the way. AS/400 shows the way. Sun Solaris shows the way. Linux shows the way. Microsoft keeps trying to catch-up, but are still years behind. Even Windows 2000 is not capable of changing the computer workgroup name without restarting the whole thing. Yesterday my Windows 2000 spontaneous restarted. BIOS screen and all that. The same machine, that via a harddisk drawer also runs Linux (most of the time), never crashes in Linux. With never I mean never, not just seldom. And it still runs the StarCraft and Half-Life/Counter-Strike games under Linux, although they are Windows-games. You are right, that there are lots of hardware errors out there, like the Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100+ network adapter, that has a receiver lockup bug. Exactly that one is a good example, because if you install Windows NT 4, your machine will eventually hang if you do not prevent it from installing it's driver. Linux writes the message "Receiver lock-up workaround enabled" on the screen. What's the difference? The difference is, that the installation CDs of NT were not updated until Windows 2K came out... MSFT relied on Service Packs instead.