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

To: ProDeath who wrote (44629)	5/10/2000 9:02:00 AM
From: abbigail	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Dear SchmanDELI: Your post is pure baloney: "I am critical of Microsoft's products as a result of having used them and other products and thus having had the opportunity to perform an informed comparison. Microsoft's "enterprise" software is bettered in just about every measure by Unix. The poor reliability and erratic behavior of MS desktop software makes it expensive to support as well as infuriating and antagonistic to many end users. Crack cocaine is a big seller is many places and a great deal of money has been made from it; that doesn't mean it's a good thing. In this regard, Crack cocaine and Microsoft software have a great deal in common." I have used Microsoft Products and Microsofts Partners products (Intuit, CCH Computax, Creative Solutions, PPT Express, Traveling Software (Laplink), Great Plains, Sage Software (MAS90), Symantek, Parsons Technology, etc) and am very happy with them. "Poor reliability and erratic behavior" are absent from my experience with these products and services over the past six years, using them in work on a daily basis. No, and I don't use crack cocaine or consider myself or employees of the firm as addicts. abbigail PS Take your lunchmeat and deli business elsewhere. It Stinks!

To: ProDeath who wrote (44629)	5/10/2000 1:19:00 PM
From: TTOSBT	Respond to of 74651

Re: "Crack cocaine and Microsoft software have a great deal in common." I think you have just improved upon my point; anti-MSFT competitors and DOJ are not only criminalizing MSFT but they are trying to demoralize them. As long as there are activities like this going on MSFT cannot settle they must fight. TTOSBT P.S. Have you tried: C17H17NO(C2H3O2)2,

To: ProDeath who wrote (44629)	5/11/2000 1:13:00 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

You say The poor reliability and erratic behavior of MS desktop software makes it expensive to support as well as infuriating and antagonistic to many end users. And that would be in comparison to what desktop software? I'm really curious. While the Mainframe terminals like the 3280 were pretty trouble free, likewise the VT100 and its descendents, there were few tears shed when they were replaced by PCs. Unix workstations may have some advantages in a few situations (trading desks being one that I am familiar with), but NT based workstations now have similar capability for those uses, and also are at least as reliable and non-erratic, and as a result are rapidly replacing Unix boxes in many of those situations. Aside from that, your statement seems pretty abstract. More erratic than what? Less reliable than what?