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

To: Jordan A. Sheridan who wrote (56581)	3/12/2001 10:52:55 AM
From: Epics	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Short Microsoft--Easiest cash on wall street

To: Jordan A. Sheridan who wrote (56581)	3/13/2001 2:09:13 AM
From: dybdahl	Respond to of 74651

OK - bad example - but MSIE still upgrades DLLs relevant to other applications as well. The same with most other Backoffice products - they just upgrade what they need to upgrade. I have been a consultant on upgrading NT webservers at an ISP with new Microsoft software several times, and each time we had to do thorough testing of the websites to find the new errors that were introduced by the upgrade. And in some cases, that has been MANY web-sites we had to check, and each time we didn't find all errors and got angry customers. There is no doubt why the ISP doesn't want to upgrade any software on the NT servers unless absolutely necessary, and why they run Linux on all their primary computers and their main webhotel servers. The Linux servers are upgraded all the time (with no service interruptions!), and they haven't had any customers complaining about that, yet. Lars.