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

To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (58781)	6/13/2001 12:10:08 PM
From: Dave	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

If the MSFT install base of PCs is around 500 million (probably a conservative number) then that works out to $48 per PC last year, or $4 per month. That's not a conservative number, unless you count all DOS machines that have ever been built and thrown into land fills, but I don't think people are paying $4/month for those machines. Hey, I could be wrong, maybe Microsoft has figured out a way to charge a subscription fee for people who have dumped their PCs, but I haven't heard about this yet. Do you have more information about MSFT's new .DUMP service? Dave