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

To: David Howe who wrote (48753)	8/25/2000 8:23:11 PM
From: Dave	Respond to of 74651

"And people on this board question MSFT's innovation? Can Linux do anything like this? Can the Mac OS?" I don't know about Linux, but Mac OS has had the Location Manager since Mac OS 9.0 came out. The Location Manager absolutely lets you reconfigure dynamically. And you don't have to write new drivers to support it. As a matter of fact, I believe that if you run Virtual PC or Soft Windows on a Mac, then Windows 95 or 98 will do this too! << I run it myself and have not shut down my laptop in months - I just hibernate. This lets me boot up with my context preserved in about 10 seconds. Sure you can do that (maybe, sometimes) with Win9X, but does Win9X automatically discover and configure for current device and IP when coming out of hibernation? No - but Win2K does, and does it right. I go into a hotel room and hook to their DSL line, restore, and Whammo, I'm on the net, no muss no fuss... >>