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

To: sandeep who wrote (52165)	10/24/2000 7:18:53 PM
From: johnd	Respond to of 74651

Sandeep, keep long term view. Next year this time, MSFT could be back at 60 - 65 PE and over 150 - 160; most likely the corporate upgrade cycle will begin sooner than later.

To: sandeep who wrote (52165)	10/24/2000 8:13:56 PM
From: Rusty Johnson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Good news for lovers of Excel and Word ... you can use Microsoft's Excel 2000 and Word 2000 without using one of their many pathetic, fragmented operating systems. Thanks to slashdot.org Posted by timothy on Tuesday October 24, @03:23PM from the would-you-like-a-little-whine-with-that? dept. LLurex writes: "There's a short comment and screenshot < home.twcf.rr.com > on Ian Schmidt's Wine Page < home.twcf.rr.com > about everyone's favourite Windoze Emulator < winehq.com > finally running Excel2000 and Word2000 (imho the only really good applications Microsoft ever published)! No more lame excuses, time to switch OS ..." The screenshot of Excel looks pretty much, well, like a screenshot of Excel. With this, two of the most persistent reasons not to run Linux appear to be fading; of course, what's to stop Microsoft from releasing versions that won't work under Wine, ever? That could be a good reason to stick with GNUmeric and pico.

To: sandeep who wrote (52165)	10/24/2000 8:15:43 PM
From: Exacctnt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Compaq's CEO was interviewed on CNBC. The gist of the lowered 4th qtr expectations, was the weakness of the EURO. The CEO said that Compaq already hedged the currency and the max pain from currency transactions and translations would be around 4 cents of earnings. They therefore are incorporating that loss in their forward guidance dropping EPS estimates from 41 cents to 37 cents, since the EURO is lower now than when they put the hedge in place. The European business aside from currency fluctuations was on track. Regards