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

To: Frederick Smart who wrote (46336)	6/9/2000 4:10:00 PM
From: The Duke of URL©	Respond to of 74651

Gee, just when you thought it was safe to get back in the water... :) ZDNN Plenty of integration in Windows Me Microsoft's newest operating system may be near release As the legal battle over Microsoft Corp.'s right to integrate technologies into its programs and operating systems drags on, the company is forging full steam ahead with the next very tightly integrated version of Windows. Only one day before Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson issued his final judgment in the Department of Justice vs. Microsoft antitrust case, Microsoft released to testers what might be the final beta release of its Windows Millennium Edition product. (Microsoft is a partner in MSNBC.) Windows Millennium Edition, or Windows Me for short, is Microsoft?s minor upgrade to Windows 98 and Windows 98 SE, which observers expect to be delivered commercially later this summer. Microsoft officials have said the company intends to ship the product in the second half of the year, and many PC makers are counting on preloading Windows Me on systems this Christmas season. Windows Me features a fully integrated version of Internet Explorer 5.5, Windows Media Player 7.0 and Microsoft Movie Maker ? three previously separate Microsoft products. (Movie Maker in its current form is not a Microsoft product, but Microsoft did market Movie Maker products in 1996 as part of its creative/education series of software applications for children.) msnbc.com

To: Frederick Smart who wrote (46336)	6/11/2000 5:30:00 AM
From: Joseph Pareti	Respond to of 74651

Re :The world is moving beyond companies and structured organizations that who need control to a SERVICE environment where communities led by empowered individuals expand, grow and share knowledge by giving up control. your really sound like Eric Raymond :-) and by the way the financial community probably had that kind of freedom in 1928-1929 time frame ... Now, if you were the CIO of a multi million$ company, would you bet your biz on LINUX, hoping that the service community will be there to rescue ? How long will it take before linux has decent cluster features, giving that the open source folks don't really care about ? Do you really believe that SAP, ORCL,... are paying more than just lip service ? In short, we may be moving to a service environmnent but we are still living in one of MUSCLES, where mainframes are alive and well... and by the way if you recall the anti-trust case against big-blue, I heard their team of lawyers was LARGER than one ENTIRE plaintiff organization. So what makes you think it's going to be different with Microsoft ?