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

To: David Howe who wrote (46193)	6/7/2000 9:44:00 PM
From: ProDeath	Respond to of 74651

At times I have the misfortune of using Windows '98. It is slow, buggy, time-wasting, infuriating garbage that causes me to punch the wall every time it craps out, usually once or twice a day. Of course, I do forget I'm using a toy and tend to demand of it the same multitasking capability I reliably got with OS/2 1.3 almost a decade ago, or for that matter am getting at this moment using Linux ;-). Besides, 98 is still based on DOS for goodness sakes! This makes it truly an anachronism and is a major source of its insurmountable limitations. A couple of years after the introduction of the Intel 80386, DOS had no excuse other than that the yokels could be duped into buying it. I have repeatedly seen Project fail with large real-world project plans. In the most recent case I know of, which took place at a Fortune 500 account, MS was repeatedly contacted and basically could offer nothing more than "Gosh, that sure is a big project!". They graciously left out the part about "Thanks for the money, sucker, see you on the midway!". Office? Give me a break, 99% of the utility offered for 99% of users is word processing and spreadsheet. At this time such software is terminally evolved and the dominance of Office only insures that one cannot easily find more stable implementations. Access is a liability in any serious data-based environment due to the fact that users persist in believing that it can be used to develop sharable databases and applications that are not a support nightmare. As to Power Point, some are no doubt glad that the boring, listless, same-as-the-last-one presentations it creates are a clear signal to get a nap in during a meeting. As to why the adoption of NT and 2000 see: Message 13572647 Think about it.