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

To: rudedog who wrote (44691)	5/14/2000 12:19:00 PM
From: ProDeath	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Nothing really beats a dumb terminal, for example an X terminal, for low maintenance at the desktop. The key issue here is how often the software changes at the desktop machine. Terminals change very little, desktop computers change more often, and amongst the latter Windows machines seem to change most often. If one must have a fully functioning computer at the desktop, you can't really beat a Unix workstation for stability. NT suffers from the problem of ever-changing runtime libraries as a result of application providers updating these system libraries ( ex. .DLLs, .OCXs ) as part of their application installation. As long as the line between operating system and application is as blurry as it is on NT and MS refuses to designate a core set of libraries as immutable by applications, you cannot expect stability through software changes. The cost of this problem scales up by the number of desktops involved.