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

To: Dave who wrote (61783)	10/20/2001 5:20:07 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Dave - actually most of the features I mentioned were available in NeXT systems 15 years ago, long ahead of equivalent MAC capability. And way better compound document capability was available on the big workstation systems. But NeXT, MAC and the rest never opened their architectures and charged premium prices to their locked-in customer base. They suffered the fate of everyone who didn't "get" the volume paradigm - they got marginalized to a few fanatics. The difference is that I could always get a volume WinTel system for 30 cents on the dollar against a MAC - something Apple did not correct until a few years ago. But actually, your argument just reinforces my point, and is another good argument against the point Charles made. If in fact Windows machines only recently got to the point where they offer the rich media experience that the elite has enjoyed for 17 years, all the more reason to upgrade. And clearly proof that capability has increased over the last few years, rather than "word processing has not changed much in 10 years"...