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

To: rudedog who wrote (49446)	9/16/2000 6:44:40 PM
From: Charles Tutt	Respond to of 74651

There is a tension between the two directions -- thicker (the trend until recently) vs. thinner (only recently made possible by the explosion of bandwidth). But you know what they say -- you can never be too rich or too thin! I tend to think the transition towards thin will happen in "Internet Time" once it hits a certain critical mass, driven by ease of administration, the accompanying low TCO, portability, usability, and increasing comfort/familiarity with the concept that not everything one relies on has to physically reside on one's desktop. In a nutshell, the rise of "WebTone." But that's JMHO, and I've been wrong before.