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

To: dybdahl who wrote (48707)	8/25/2000 12:17:23 PM
From: Jordan A. Sheridan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Hogwash. You have taken a very specific example of hardware driver availability and extended it to nobody supporting Windows 2000 before the summer of 2001. Like I said, hogwash. Edit: By the way, a quick search of Windows 2000 compatible drivers lists 13140 compatible, supported hardware devices. microsoft.com JS

To: dybdahl who wrote (48707)	8/25/2000 12:48:50 PM
From: johnd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

dybdahl: Windows 2000 may be being heavily deployed as we speak. I travel quite a bit in planes and find that over 1/2 of all the laptops that people use are running WIndows2000 pro. I see a big upside potential for Microsoft's biz fundamentals starting this Q.

To: dybdahl who wrote (48707)	8/25/2000 7:25:58 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

dybdahl - I'm confused by your statement about "The supplier, Compaq, wasn't able to deliver Windows 2000 on the PCs involved, because the approved SCSI card wasn't support with Windows 2000." ALL of CPQ's commercial desktop products were certified with Win2K at launch, with all the options CPQ supplies on those systems. What "approved" SCSI card was it, and who "approved" it? Smells fishy to me. ALL of the deskpro configurations say "Compaq recommends Windows 2000 Professional for business" and I was unable to configure a system which did not support W2K. For example, directplusitg.compaq.com Maybe you could supply us with a little more information about the unsupported SCSI card, and why it was included in the configuration. Did it come from CPQ?