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Strategies & Market Trends : Steve's Channelling Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: mishedlo who wrote (16595)	5/24/2001 10:28:13 PM
From: Rich1	Respond to of 30051

Up...IMHO...

To: mishedlo who wrote (16595)	5/25/2001 12:01:29 AM
From: McNabb Brothers	Respond to of 30051

Up IMO! Hank

To: mishedlo who wrote (16595)	5/25/2001 12:36:29 AM
From: Jdaasoc	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 30051

M: How are you PUTs doing this week. I closed a small NDX short hedge position today fearing the sky may fall this week. I broke even even thought the index was lower then when I opened it they reduced premiums and the damm index would not stay down below 2250 long enough to get fair price to close it down at a nice profit. Just watch out there. things are rolling up out there sneakily. MSFT has such a lock on software piracy now they be selling 1 copy of current releases of Office, server and Exchange software for every system as of now. Wait until you hear the kicker, those copies of Win 98 Win NT or Office 97 will be worth nothing for a competitive upgrade in OCT. MSFT will be minting money in a style they never have before in 4Q IMO. I assume that 90% of previous software releases were fakes or duplicate installs without paying for license. For example with NT40 server, the honor policy was in effect for $35 workstataions licenses. Now you have to buy the approiate number of paper licenses, install the software, enter in the activation numbers off the paper licenses, and then call Microsoft for unlocking key which actually makes the software functional. So no phoning home to Redmond, no activation period. It will not be possible to install software second time without telling MSFT over the phone it was because something like the hard drive died or some other sad story. Better yet you get a copy of Office 2000 from a friend and you are requested to call MSFT for unlocking key and they tell you that copy has been tried to be installed 9 or 10 times by other people they poilitely ask you for $400 to become legit. Even better yet try to get software updates from MSFT web site. If it detects a duplicate copy of product trying to get a software patch; it disables your copy on the spot. john