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

To: t2 who wrote (56952)	3/30/2001 2:41:43 PM
From: The Duke of URL©	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Has this been posted? Xbox to launch with 11 Sega titles New console due out in autumn TOKYO, March 30 — Microsoft Corp put more firepower in the arsenal of its new Xbox videogame console with 11 game titles to be created by Japanese software developer Sega Corp for its autumn launch, chairman Bill Gates said on Friday.... msnbc.com

To: t2 who wrote (56952)	3/30/2001 3:43:17 PM
From: Dave	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

PDA prices, from mysimon.com : iPaq starts at $494. HP Jornada (Pocket PC) starts at $359. Palm/Handspring starts at $127. ...about the handsprind and Palm units sitting on the shelves. They are basically a luxury item that one can do without. Not once you start using one. A Palm in conjunction with Palm Desktop is essential for keeping your calendar, phone numbers, etc. For business use, I guess you would wantWord/Excel on it--otherwise it would also be a luxury item. Believe it or not, word-processing and spreadsheet software is available for Palm OS as well as for PocketPC. Not that you can really do any serious word-procssing on a PDA anyway. I can kind of see the use for a handheld spreadsheet, but there are better tools for doing number crunching on a PDA, using hierarchical lists. I don't think they're available for PocketPC though. PCS will be offering higher speed internet at 144k late this year. We may finally see the start of the wireless internet by then. I hope so! That will be of great benefit to both Palm and PocketPC users, assuming of course that they both offer good Java support so you can actually run apps. Dave

To: t2 who wrote (56952)	3/30/2001 10:44:55 PM
From: rudedog	Respond to of 74651

t2 - I saw that Dave gave the pricing so I will skip that. I guess dave didn't understand why I want word and excel on my handheld though. It's not to compose, it's to read the things people send. I'm out on the road somewhere and someone says "can you just look at these numbers before I send them out? I need to know in an hour." Well, if I'm using a palm I can't - it won't display the attachment. But the iPaq will. As to component shortages - I heard that the iPaq uses a custom color display and that was the bottleneck. Since they are using 100% of the output of whoever they contracted with, the market forces have little to do with that supply. I have 128K Ricochet on my laptop - it is ISDN speed anywhere (well at least anywhere around Houston and several other cities). It will be on iPaq sometime later this year. I think that various kinds of voice - both cell functionality and voice over IP - will be on PDAs pretty soon. But I will still carry a cell phone. I don't think that cell phones that try to be PDAs have much future but I could be wrong. The Microsoft "stinger" product is supposed to be as handy as a cell phone but with PDA like capability. I don't know much about it beyond that.