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

To: SC who wrote (45134)	5/23/2000 5:48:00 PM
From: cheryl williamson	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74651

Guess what??? People ARE worried about security of information. They aren't prepared to make matters worse by using unsecured PC's over the internet. Every time a virus hits the masses, fewer and fewer computer user's get excited about using their Window's O/S for e-commerce or even e-mail. I don't know how much simpler I can explain it. If someone steals your credit card, you report it stolen and the credit card issuer takes over from there. If you download a virus and it destroys 5 years worth of financial records on your PC, you're just out of luck. If someone writes an rsh daemon that installs itself on your wide-open PC and reports back all keystrokes to a remote site, someone else has a record of all your passwords and account numbers if you use your PC for internet commerce. You don't think that's a PROBLEM??? Most people aren't going to be affected, because most people are going to avoid using the PC for internet commerce until they are assured security. It's just that simple. That places a lid on e-commerce growth and an opportunity for a new technology to come along and replace Windows as an end-user tool. BTW: SUNW and M$FT do not compete in the same markets except for the low-end corporate server market. Your characterization of SUNW as "worried" about M$FT intrusion into the enterprise O/S market is truly laughable. Sun has a lot more to worry about from other Unix systems than it ever will have to worry about Windows.