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

To: David Howe who wrote (48396)	8/9/2000 5:43:54 PM
From: dybdahl	Respond to of 74651

This is just one of my computers. I run MSDN Windows 2000 Advanced Server (terminal server client capable) on the one I'm sitting at right now, so yes, I do pay Microsoft licenses, but not on the machine I told you about. The reality is, that Windows 95 is still on many machines, even Microsoft Mail (remember?) is still used much around. Some companies upgrade when new versions come out, some companies upgrade when they have to. There are more and more companies that don't upgrade every time. I still don't know about a single company over 25 employees in Denmark (except Microsoft Denmark), that has upgraded to Office 2000 or Windows 2000. Maybe because the danish Word 2000 isn't compatible with Word 97 (which everybody uses). As meeting coordinator for a group of professional database programmers, I haven't heard of an Access 2000 solution yet - I only heard about people looking at it and telling me that there are too many bugs. And I have seen several small companies buying Office 2000, and downgrade to Office 1997 again, when they found out that they were incompatible... Our customers include the CFO office of the danish postal service, a nuclear power plant in Sweden, the danish IRS, the government of Greenland, Ingram Micro and several .com companies.