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

To: Dave who wrote (54896)	1/5/2001 5:13:45 PM
From: sandeep	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

WebTV box doesn't really run any windows software yet. XBox is a real msft effort. I doubt that it will be noisy when it is shipped. Fast boots also will be automatic if the hardware configuration is known, like it is in xbox. When you have complete control over a machine and software, you can be really innovative. Microsoft's main problem in OS land at this point is that it has almost no control over the hardware on the machine nor its quality. And it just shares the blame. Of course, that keeps the costs down due to competition and thereby it is able to do better than a company like aapl.

To: Dave who wrote (54896)	1/5/2001 5:44:16 PM
From: Tony Viola	Respond to of 74651

How can they remove the fan? They're going to ship with a 733 MHz CPU. It will require either a fan, or a liquid nitrogen cooling system. Sounds like a job for superchip, no, make that speedstep technology, which Intel makes for notebooks. They are also working on more advanced low power, high speed chips for notebooks, beyond what is out now, i.e., much better speed/power characteristics. No reason PIII in that technology couldn't be used for the Xabox. Tony