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

To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (61746)10/19/2001 10:48:18 AM
From: Ali Chen  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 74651
 
"how these "prelaunch" sales have been going but I expect they've done quite well"

The question would be redundant.
These sales apparently are doing exactly the same
as sales of general PCs are doing these days. Simply
because THERE IS NO CHOICE for consumers - only
Windows XP on all new OEM PCs. The monopoly is at work.

"Clearly XP is poised to hit the ground running with near-100% penetration in the consumer space"
Poised? LOL! Pushed down the consumer throat, see above.
- Ali



To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (61746)10/19/2001 11:49:45 AM
From: dybdahl  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 74651
 
You are correct, that end-users don't care about how costs are divided amongst components, and the extra cost of an XP license isn't a big problem. But buying XP means that "you will have to pay something again after 2 years". This is not good.

But if Microsoft succeeds in getting XP well deployed and getting people hooked up on Passport, money will come in.

Lars.


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