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

To: JP Sullivan who wrote (60798)	8/24/2001 6:29:35 PM
From: dybdahl	Respond to of 74651

Microsoft should try to buy WordPerfect and integrate their Envoy technology into Windows... ;-) There are lots of Windows desktops out there, that cannot display PDF-files received by e-mail. I cannot imagine any Linux desktop without that ability. If you want standard features, like easy handling of big ascii files, good Photoshop-like image manipulation, an Office suite, PDF generation etc., Windows becomes extremely expensive, whereas you can get it all for free on Linux. A standard Windows desktop PC with Microsoft Office, common facilities like those mentioned etc. in an Office environment, is more than $3000 just in hardware and software. A Linux-based equivalent is $700. The difference becomes even greater, if Microsoft doesn't start to put in a lot of apps into Windows. Microsoft should have agreed to a core OS separation (split-up) - that would have been a great benefit to Microsoft. Lars.