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

To: cheryl williamson who wrote (46886)	6/16/2000 7:32:00 PM
From: Michael Do	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

>Message #46886 from cheryl williamson at Jun 16, 2000 6:06 PM ET rudedog, Your post is like a breath of fresh air. I laughed because I've had transmission problems w/my Chrysler. Look, I don't think anyone in Detroit starts out by designing a car that is "good enough". Good enough means you really don't care if the product is buggy because it'll sell anyway. Detroit USED to be pretty cavalier with its customers until too many opted for Japanese cars. The Japanese certainly didn't design and manufacture cars to be "good enough". They didn't even care much about "planned obsolesence". I don't see any reason for the computer business to be any different.< You are so wrong about automotive products that make me laugh out load. Not only they design to be "good enough" to save money but even if it would harm the customer later they would do it anyway. Just check your car door panels, before they would need to put screws to attached to the doors. T save money, they used the snap-on panel that will save the labor and screws cost, but if you need to remove the panel to repair something you will need to replace the panel entirely or put up with rattle like crazy because it is designed for 1 time snapped-in only. The lists go on. Not only that, the way to design consumer electronics is designed the working module and start take the component out until it stops working then release for manufacturing. Any industries deals with cost-benefit analysis and software is no different. Microsoft designs the product acceptable to me and a good price then I buy it. If Sun wants my money then give me what I want at what want to pay, so far no one offers anything close to Microsoft offer. Apple is the close to it but I am not about to pay twice as much for the samething that I can get on The PC. I am not about to use a thin client for any price. The era for thin-client (IBM Mainframe era) is over, The stand alone PC (Pre-Internet) is also over, the era of Networking Personal Computers is here. (Note that P on PC for personal, I will share with others on the network whatever I want to share but whatever I have is mine and no one has any business to keep it for me). Mike