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

To: DiViT who wrote (61771)	10/20/2001 2:00:02 PM
From: Dave	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 74651

"On Macintosh and Linux you don't have to pay after two years" Same for Windows. Unless you want High volume discounts and corporate support. Your choice. Apple doesn't charge more for an upgrade from an older system than from a more recent system. Microsoft does. That's the difference. The result is that unless you want to pay to upgrade your Windows OS as often as Microsoft decides it wants you to so that it can meet its earnings estimates, you will be penalized when you do decide to upgrade, because Microsoft will force you to pay for a new OS, rather than an upgrade. There is no such restriction on Macintosh. Hey, has anybody else noticed that if you order a Windows XP system from Dell it costs $60 more than a Windows 2000 or Windows 98SE machine? While the total cost of the system has halved, the price for the latest Windows operating system has increased. Has the cost of Windows doubled? There's no easy way to tell without a subpoena. If it's doubled, then the cost of Windows as a percentage of system cost has quadrupled. Ah the power of abusive monopoly pricing. Must be nice. I predict that a lot of people are going to switch to Mac OS X as a result of this kind of treatment. Dave