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

To: cheryl williamson who wrote (46694)	6/14/2000 6:36:00 PM
From: sandeep	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Cheryl, stop whining. NO OS manufacturer has ever shipped an OS which is bulletproof, has so many features and which is as cheap as Win9x/WinNT. Had anybody done so, Microsoft would be nowhere in the picture. If anybody does so, Microsoft will be forced to follow or it will disappear. That's how free markets work. Which world do you live in ? Are you a commie by any chance ?

To: cheryl williamson who wrote (46694)	6/14/2000 6:39:00 PM
From: david_si	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

"The fact that the features don't work as advertised and you could drive a tractor-trailer" Everything on the OS box is included and does what I want it to. If bugs were an antitrust crime, every software company would be a violator. Your admitting that alternative products exist show that there is no monopoly. And as a consumer, I've been more harmed by a bug in Netscape than by any bug in Internet Explorer. If Microsoft advertised that Windows 2000 did something, and then it didn't, everyone would get a refund, and this would be the highlight of the DOJ case. Not the case. There is no reason to every buy a MS upgrade unless it has something new in it that you want. Where's the forcing to buy their products? Since alternative OSs exist, and since ALL software contains bugs, where is the monopoly and where are the antitrust violations?

To: cheryl williamson who wrote (46694)	6/15/2000 3:19:00 PM
From: Andy Thomas	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

--You're welcome to keep your data on your own trusty PC. Lots of people don't want the bother or the responsibility. -- but if you were honest you would admit that you prefer local storage yourself, at least for some things. andy