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

To: Thunder who wrote (57739)	4/29/2001 10:00:23 PM
From: ToySoldier	Respond to of 74651

Well, for my home computer I have upgraded just a couple months ago to Win98 SE. There is no way I would think of WinME or Win2000. Both do not proper support many of the legacy programs (i.e. games) and even some current HW/SW. For that reason, it would be quite obvious that XP is out of the question for home computer for the same reason. At my new company I was provided with a new Dell Notebook. It was supplied with Windows2000. There are some definite improvements of Win2K over Win95 and even Win98, but over the past 8 months, I have also ran into several of those incompatibilities I mentioned. Example is a recent WebCam I purchased from Intel. Intel did not have Win2000 code that support their webcam. INTEL of all companies. Win2000 is good if one does not expect to stray too far from either the MSFT product line or other more standard office applications. The SW/HW OEMs still seem to put Win2000 as a second priority to Win95/98 in the development cycle of their products. As for pricing, I havent really been watching MSFT. I would say I was vindicated from my prediction about a year and a half ago when I was saying MSFT's price would possibly even reach the $40s. I was told my predictions were rediculous. I guess we know who's was and wasnt. So sorry, I dont have any big predictions for MSFT now - I would say that the 3 digit share price is a long long way away in case anyone is even hoping that it will reach that any time soon. Cheers! Toy