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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: QwikSand who wrote (39816)	12/29/2000 3:34:34 AM
From: JC Jaros	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

I don't know the MHz of the machine I use. I don't know the size of the storage. I don't need to spend any of my time 'maintaining my desktop'. I use a primative text based terminal dialed into a secure server or whatever answers the phone when I call. If I had greater bandwidth (like a cable modem) I'd probably have graphics, etc. In any case, I don't need a PC. I use the network (whatever that is). I connect to it with whatever's available. I'm going off on an arbitrary rant. <g> Other people may need to have a workstation, like a Pentium or an Ultra. I don't. Most people don't. There's only so many MHz you need for connecting to the network. Enter "richness of experience", MS's feeble new marketing slogan they hope will make up for what is inevitably the failure of the Personal Computer in the area of actual productivity and actual cost against the diskless network devices of the future AND even the glass house installations they replaced. The self managing magic PC never happened. That curtain's been pulled back. So, that's where MS is moving off to -- Richness of Experience. It means "local hard drive with licensed Windows(TM) end user" whether it's a PC or an XBox. It's the only trick that pony knows. So, if the network is the computer and the bandwidth is there to deliver the essential services more reliably and efficiently at a lower. highly predictable recurring cost, ubiquitously, from anywhere, Bill Gates starts to not feeling so good. He broods. He thinks and thinks. What he comes up with to the answer of "Why do I need a PC?" isn't the tired old personal empowerment pitch (which was userped by the network). It's now 'richness of experience'. If I were an IT manager, my eyebrow would be more than somewhat raised. I wouldn't be in the market for "richness of experience". If I were, I'd go to a rave club, take MDMA and trance dance to Jungle music with some underdressed hottie beneath the Windows controlled disco ball. <g> -JCJ