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

To: JC Jaros who wrote (48103)	7/23/2000 10:38:09 PM
From: Rarebird	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

<Survival of the fittest" --- That's in the animal kingdom, dude.> What abstract moral planet are you living on? ( I'm still waiting for you to elaborate- though I think I already know.) "Survival of the fittest" happens to represent the cunning of human reason and the realm of human creativity, which rules the world. The public human consensus is often quite fickle and subject to change based on private selfish interest. Personally, I'm not much of a moralist, but I do observe the "Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would want them to do unto you." In Modern terms, I could say that an action is moral if it is good for all human beings. The hard part is deciding how to apply the maxim. Ultimately, I think your right about the reality of the monopoly. So, I wouldn't want to argue that point. But my point is that the monopoly primarily came into being as a result of Gate's genius. It was in trying to maintain the monopoly where Gate's erred. I also think there is the issue of the Gov't wanting some revenues here. PS I support other Operating System's.

To: JC Jaros who wrote (48103)	7/25/2000 12:48:59 PM
From: Rusty Johnson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Windows Me: Not Worth the Trouble Microsoft's latest OS for consumers doesn't justify the hassle of installation Business Week Online When Microsoft Corp. unveiled Windows 2000 a few months ago, it threw a huge party featuring Carlos Santana. Don't look for rock stars this summer when Microsoft releases its latest operating system aimed at consumers, Windows Millennium Edition. Windows Me, as Microsoft likes to call it, offers some improvements on Windows 98 and will be welcome when installed on new computers. But I suspect that most folks will not consider it worth the cost--about $90--or the trouble of upgrading. Windows Me is a product that was never supposed to happen. Windows 98 was intended as the last operating system release built on the 20-year-old foundation of MS-DOS. By now, we were supposed to be running our home computers on a version of Windows NT (since renamed Windows 2000) simplified for consumers. But many months of delays pushed the consumer project far into the future, so Microsoft went for one more facelift. The company talks vaguely of releasing Windows 2000 for consumers, code-named Whistler, next year, but few in the industry expect to see it before 2002. Windows Me will be available in stores on Sept. 14 and will probably begin showing up on new computers in August. ... An assortment of applications that are available separately doesn't offer much justification for the pain of installing an operating-system upgrade. If you are unhappy with Windows 98, I recommend an upgrade to Windows 2000, provided you can deal with its hardware and software restrictions (Technology & You, June 5). Otherwise, you're better off waiting until you buy a new computer--or until Whistler comes out, even if you have to wait two more years. BY STEPHEN H. WILDSTROM businessweek.com I recommend BeOS, Linux, Solaris or an Apple OS. My next desktop box will probably run Apple's OS X. Best of luck.