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

To: SC who wrote (46928)	6/17/2000 11:48:00 AM
From: JC Jaros	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Yes, I'm a SUNW shill, but that has absolutely NOTHING to do with the post you most lamely responded to. --- My mother-in-law, like 90% of the Windows PC 'owners' (sic) use those boxes for the freakin' internet. Look at how much time you people here spend on the World Wide Web. What do you need Windows FOR? --- There's nothing she wont be able to do with *nix on her machine that she now does with Windows. --- YES, having it to do over, getting her a cheap UltraSPARC IIi and running root remotely rather than that Micron whatever it was, would have been more hassle free. The MOST hassle free would have been a thin client with the big bandwidth. That didn't exist at the time. That's something that WILL exist within the next year. --- You Soldier of Fortune subscribers are welcome to continue using PCs. I'm just saying (after this many years), it's not for me. -JCJ

To: SC who wrote (46928)	6/18/2000 2:54:00 PM
From: JC Jaros	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

all she wanted was a simple vehicle to take her to the store, etc --- I wanted to revisit this, Steve. The "etc" part is the shrinking aspect. She (mother-in-law) needs a simple vehicle to take her to the store, period. Increasingly, people go one place. Online. While there, they use one application. The browser. That obviates the need for the local operating system altogether. --- PCs are a pain for one reason; the hard drive. I spend more time futzing with my PC than I do my truck, so how 'simple' is that? --- Being that no real alternative to the PC exists yet for the home, a free Unix for my mother-in-law actually makes sense because it's easy to administer remotly (for me) and by setting 'permissions' keeps the user from doing any damage (like changing system settings). --- Once the bandwidth is happening we'll be able to remove our hard drives altogether and hide them behind our copy machines. --- Microsoft itself is planning into that future (Application Service providing). I believe one has an equal or better chance in the future of writing the "OS/Office Suite" check to AT&T as Microsoft. --- The PC has gotten to be an INCREDIBLY complex device that doesn't in the least fill the bill of "simple vehicle". There is a HUGE market for such a simple vehicle. It doesn't have an operating system on a local hard drive. -JCJ