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

To: Dave who wrote (53188)	11/11/2000 8:23:57 PM
From: Randy Ellingson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

As for the Bush side requesting manual recounts in select counties in FL, apparently that request would have had to been made within 72 hours of the first tabulation. This is off TV coverage, so take it for what it's worth. Also, it seems such a rule should be flexible (via some means, legal if necessary) given the significance of the election. Randy

To: Dave who wrote (53188)	11/12/2000 4:42:45 PM
From: Rusty Johnson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Is There Life After Microsoft? New players are poised to enter the operating systems game. Fortune Technology Guide, Winter 2001, page 230 Once the system is installed, day-to-day life with Linux can be pretty easy. ... "You don't realize how much better off you are until you experience it. You just get used to booting Windows." The Linux crusaders want to bring PCs into a new era. Desktop computers have been widely used for more than twenty years. It's about time they became less finicky, less crash-prone, and much more reliable. More buzz about Eazel. eazel.com Don't underestimate Andy Hertzfeld. Also an old article from Fortune.com ... Whither the OS? By Mark Gimein fortune.com Whatever happens in the anti-trust case, you can bet that Microsoft won't be selling packaged operating systems and updates in ten years. Instead, just as Eazel hopes to do, it will be charging users every month for all the services they'll need to stay connected to the Internet (as well selling office applications, which is arguably still Microsoft's most important monopoly -- at least in the U.S.). As for the Internet connection itself, don't think that Microsoft is ready to cede that to America Online and its competitors, either. The Microsoft of the future will as likely as not exhibit all the monopolistic tendencies of today's Microsoft, but won't be anything like we understand it today. And yet even as the Microsoft case speeds its way through the courts, there are already indications that sooner than anyone thought, it might just not matter any more. Best of luck.