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

To: alydar who wrote (47602)	7/12/2000 11:08:03 AM
From: John R Resseger	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

I nave yet to see any retailer offering Windows 2000 on a system. Best Buy, Office Max, CompUSA. Circut City ! My system has not froze in 18 hours. I downloaded the new drivers from Nvida. I hope Win98 has unzipping in it . I downloaded to this machine and it wiil take two floppies. I can't see where MSFT sold many copies of 2000. With so many burners out there, I can't see them selling much of anything.

To: alydar who wrote (47602)	7/12/2000 12:50:50 PM
From: johnd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

MSFT will have trouble if they don't do well in their business and the stock treads water. Company has to keep business momentum and I hope The March Q was the worst point in recent history (i.e. falling short of revenue expectations, very low confidence in future etc..) ==== Weak Start for Windows 2000 May Hurt Microsoft Shares, WSJ Says New York, July 12 (Bloomberg) -- The recent rally in Microsoft Corp.'s shares could be short-lived because of signs the company's Office 2000 software package has not been selling as well as expected, the Wall Street Journal reported in its ``Heard on the Street'' column. While the company wouldn't talk about Windows 2000 sales, analysts said businesses are now spending more on specialized Internet software than on big operating system platforms such as Windows 2000 -- a change that already hurt shares of software makers Computer Associates International Inc. and BMC International Corp. The future of Microsoft's shares will also depend on the success of its new Microsoft.NET product line of Internet-based software, the paper said. Shares of Microsoft, the world's largest software maker, have regained 29 percent of their value since the government's antitrust suit drove them to 61 7/16 on May 26, their lowest level since Nov 20, 1998. (WSJ 7/12 Interactive Edition) Jul/12/2000 7:05 ET For more stories from Bloomberg News, click here. (C) Copyright 2000 Bloomberg L.P.