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

To: SC who wrote (45111)	5/23/2000 4:00:00 PM
From: cheryl williamson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Maybe the end-user does like the features that M$FT has put into the PC. It works ok as a HOBBYIST and GAMER box. That's how it started and despite attempts to morph it into something else, that's still how it works best. Thin clients will be much more difficult to break into. You won't see the kind of amateur e-mail worms that some 2-year computer student wrote breaking into a Unix server. No, Steve, people DON'T want a box for internet access that is not secure, whether it shines their shoes or not. They will simply use it for what it does best and NOT use it for what it can't deliver: secure internet transactions. M$FT has really hit the wall this time. Actually, it may be telco's who break M$FT's back on the internet. Telco's have an excellent record for availability, security, and reliability. They have been making carrier-level switch for a long time and now they are making serious inroads to the internet. Customers will order over the internet from their cell phones from their cars and not even worry about security. They'll run embedded Java apps from the phone & if they want a bigger screen just plug the phone into a pull-down screen & keyboard from a seat on an airplane, in a hotel lobby, from inside their auto or truck, or from home. You must remember, Steve, that the end-user doesn't want the RESPONSIBILITY for handling break-ins. If there is a virus, it's the ISP's problem and, more importantly, it's the IPS's LIABILITY if anything goes wrong with their account because of it. That's not unlike your relationship with a credit card company. Trust me, end-users will go for that and forget about using the PC with its crummy O/S. Maybe they'll say, "to hell with all PC's, I don't care if it's Windows, Linux, OR, MAC/OS. My kids have a PC & they play games on it, I don't have a use for it." Think about it.... cheers, cherylw