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

To: sandeep who wrote (49045)	9/7/2000 6:25:57 PM
From: johnd	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

3Q unit growth at 18.5% per IDC. 4Q is also very solid. MSFT should benefit even more than market growth as the mix shifts to higher priced (higher value) windows2000. ==== Framingham, Mass.-based IDC said unit volume for the worldwide PC market should climb to 33.4 million in the third quarter, a 18.5 percent jump from the year-ago period. "The consumer market will once again propel global PC growth this quarter," said Bruce Stephen, IDC group vice president for Worldwide Personal Systems research. "Consumer demand for PCs is especially strong in Asian markets, and U.S. home PC volume is expected to improve based on back-to-school sales."