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

To: JC Jaros who wrote (45848)	6/3/2000 5:50:00 PM
From: SunSpot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

There are two options: 1) Windows cannot handle web-requests the way Hotmail works. 2) Microsoft does not think it's worth the money to run Windows on Hotmail. I can't see any other option. Since I believe that Windows should be able to handle a system like Hotmail, although it might require a lot of good programmers, I think number 2) is the one that makes Hotmail run on FreeBSD. But I agree, that MSFT has a credibility problem, when all their benchmarks use 2Gigabyte or 4Gigabyte RAM PCs. But that's another story.