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

To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (48203)	7/27/2000 6:36:24 PM
From: Charles Tutt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

"Microsoft.NET promises to take the company's popular software, such as Office and elements of the Windows operating system, and move them to servers instead of desktop computers. That way any device - from handhelds and cell phones to personal computers - could access those programs as well as personal data housed online." Isn't that precisely what people here said they would never do?

To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (48203)	7/27/2000 7:13:21 PM
From: David Howe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Now that's a nice article. The analyst meeting must have gone well. I particularly like this quote. << Gates proudly touted the latest convert from Sun-Oracle, Web giant Lycos Inc. (NasdaqNM:LCOS - news), which recently moved all of its Web sites to Intel servers running Microsoft's Windows 2000. Lycos Chief Information Officer Tim Wright said his company had been running Windows 2000 for months and found the new systems provided better performance. >>