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

To: dybdahl who wrote (56903)	3/28/2001 3:47:41 PM
From: Brian Sullivan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Lars, I can buy 256MB of RAM at the corner computer store for $89 dollars. Windows XP runs just fine with 256MB of RAM. Only power users who are running many applications at once would notice a small delay due to paging and it isn't much of a problem. If you are a power user that expects an instantaneous response then by all means spend $90 and upgrade your system RAM to 512MB.

To: dybdahl who wrote (56903)	3/28/2001 3:58:34 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

You will get used to the Windows XP copy protection scheme I think I'll stick with Win98SE. I don't like the idea of having to check with Microsoft everytime I make a change on my computer, or not being able to use the operating system I paid for on a new computer after I wipe the old one. The short-term benefit to MSFT is that they will earn more money at places, where piracy has been usual. The long-term benefit will be that they can deliver software via the internet. Serious pirates will probably be able to hack the copy protection scheme. People like me will delay upgradeing. As for using software as a serivce sold over the internet, I would only consider getting my software this way if there is no other alternative, or if it is dirt cheap. Tim