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

To: sandeep who wrote (55388)	1/19/2001 7:22:24 PM
From: dybdahl	Respond to of 74651

Nokia targets TV buyers. People who spend money on TVs in Europe typically are also interested in lotteries, gamling and placing bets via the internet. I know that this would not be politically correct in the U.S., but that's not important here. Nokia will sell this stuff to many, many people, and it's only the beginning of a product line from Nokia, that might end up as one of their biggest product areas. Most people I know, that bought the PS/2, justified the buy with "It has a DVD player". Not "It has great games". They wouldn't buy it if it hadn't the DVD player. The PS/2 is just an appliance, like the Nokia Media Terminal, and the number of features you get is important. Games is one such feature, but for most european users, the PS/2 is simply too expensive just for games. It has to have these extra functionalities. And when the budget has a thousand dollars left (remember that europeans are taxed much harder and don't have as much non-dedicated money as americans), there will be a choice between a Nokia Media Terminal, a PS/2 and an X-Box. Maybe the X-box is mainly target at americans. I tend to believe so. Five years ago, MSFT was the company that produced software for our PCs. Today, MSFT is the "license company". They don't produce anything that normal people know of, except hotmail e-mail service and licenses. MSFT continues to show funny on-screen texts with the "license" title and "I Agree" buttons, sometimes even translated to our own language, although anyone can hit "I agree" without agreeing. That's the law. But as long as Microsoft insists on doing that, they are the "license" company. Btw, OT: The latest article about MSFT I read in danish was from the danish version of ComputerWorld: computerworld.dk In short, Microsoft Denmark has written that "when you upgrade your harddisk to a faster one, your Windows license expires". The fun part is, that they cite from the letter from MSFT, and as far as I can see, the MSFT employee has a very poor interpretation of the word "harddisk" and it's all a big misunderstanding. But the article was printed because it all sounds very likely to the average IT employee over here. People are not surprised that MSFT doesn't allow you to change your harddisk without paying a new Windows license. :-) I would call that a bad public image. Lars.