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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (177683)	9/5/2001 11:53:52 AM
From: goldworldnet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

"Right now we are 18 to 24 months past the time of peak over supply caused by the bubble of run-up demand for PC's and other tech to protect the world from the bogus y2k boggy man. A massive replacement of computer infrastructure occurred and this equipment is still useful and viable and with the first hint of lessening demand companies cut back and had more incentive to not update but to use existing hardware and software and systems." WOW Tommy, you really hit the nail on the head with this post. * * *

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (177683)	9/5/2001 11:57:31 AM
From: David R	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

XP is creating a gui functionality that emulates what X has done for a decade Ahh, the typical argument from the "we know what is best for you" unix crowd. XP is miles ahead of Linux, and with the exception of fault-tolerance, it is ahead of all other unix's as well (and XP is very robust). You just don't get it. As unremarkable as MSFT's OS technology may be, the plug-and-play support, driver support, and general ease of use are unequalled in the unix world. Have you tried watching a DVD movie on Linux? Perhaps you will find the jitter a bit excessive. XP has some really cool features. Will that translate to huge surge in PC sales, probably not. But that does not diminish the significance of XP.

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (177683)	9/5/2001 10:16:00 PM
From: rich4eagle	Respond to of 769667

Tom cudos to you, I guess there is first for everything, that was one great post except for the first line and a half <What I've found is this. Whenever someone is clueless as to how the world works and they don't like someone for whatever reason then their fear needs the support of finding someone or something that must be to blame. Then they make many stupid correlations to convince themselves of how smart they are. Right now we are 18 to 24 months past the time of peak over supply caused by the bubble of run-up demand for PC's and other tech to protect the world from the bogus y2k boggy man. A massive replacement of computer infrastructure occurred and this equipment is still useful and viable and with the first hint of lessening demand companies cut back and had more incentive to not update but to use existing hardware and software and systems. There has been no major change in the functionality of msft software in the last few years and no new real applications, the only real change is XP is creating a gui functionality that emulates what X has done for a decade. 90% or more of end users will never understand or use such features. XP does little to create and reason for investment in systems to increase productivity. Killing napster has lead to a measurable decline in internet usage and that was also a slowing force dampening the demand for bandwidth.> tom watson tosiwmee