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

To: dybdahl who wrote (50041)	9/26/2000 8:32:10 PM
From: ericneu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

For some unknown reason, MSFT obviously wasn't capable to improve this protocol to do more than 256 colors. --- IMO, Terminal Services has two primary customer scenarios: 1. "Green-screen" replacement in locations such as call centers and branch offices. 2. Remote administration of servers. In neither scenario is 16-bit color needed. Given that many (some would say most) Terminal Services clients are connecting over slow links it would also be somewhat impractical. Therefore the decision to prioritize other functionality over 16-bit color makes sense to me. - Eric