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

To: David Howe who wrote (61845)	10/21/2001 3:24:54 PM
From: Charles Tutt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Until then, why buy? Charles Tutt (TM)

To: David Howe who wrote (61845)	10/21/2001 3:36:11 PM
From: Dave	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

How much RAM and processor power will it take to project a virtual butler holograph that greats your guests at the door at parties and shows them to the closet to hang their coat and then directs then directs them to the nearest beverage station? You mean Windows doesn't support the OVB (Open Virtual Butler) standard yet? <g> In my opinion, there's no good reason for a well designed operating system to require replacement or upgrade every time you add processors or memory to your computer. By the time OVB is feasible, the operating system will long since have become a commodity. Microsoft will have either completely extricated itself from reliance on revenue from the PC markets or will have faded ignominiously into irrelevance. Do you really think consumers are going to continue to pay Microsoft a few hundred dollars every couple of years to keep their word processors and operating systems compatible, when there will be perfectly functional, FREE alternatives from sources that don't demonstrate vitriolic contempt for their users by intentionally breaking their own products in order to coerce customers to pay a compatibility tax? Well, of course you think that, or you wouldn't be holding on to your MSFT shares. I've heard little disagreement with the assertion that the only way MSFT is going to succeed in the future is to branch out into new markets and eventually relegate the PC market to a small portion of their revenues. To invest in MSFT is bet that they will be successful in these new markets, in which they have no experience or track record. There is a substantial risk in this bet, yet MSFT is trading at 30x earnings! That's a pretty high premium for such a risky investment, in a company whose revenue growth has slowed dramatically over the past couple of years. Dave

To: David Howe who wrote (61845)	10/21/2001 6:11:32 PM
From: Timetobuy	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74651

You have really GOT to be JOKING! That butler hologram would require the pc to be placed in just the right spot or a system of mirrors or wires would have to be installed. What a waste of time and money! I would NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER buy a computer for that! EVER!!!! I wouldn't pay $200 for that. I wouldn't even pay $50 for it! Show the guests to the nearest beverage station? I can't even be kind enough to greet them myself and serve them? Why should I show up to the party? ROFLMAO!!! If we have to have applications like this to make use of the power of newer computers, they won't sell because everyone will just laugh at what a total waste of time and money they are! There are plenty of microwaves that will perform all kinds of functions. Does that make ANYONE go out and upgrade their microwave or even use the one they have to do anything other than heat up leftovers, some frozen vegetables and popcorn? Not many and it hasn't done one thing to drive sales of microwaves. How many people do you know are just itching to buy a new refrigerator that they can scan a upc symbol into for a future shopping list when they use that last can of tomato sauce? Not too many people are asking for email on their refrigerators either, but a couple years ago, talk was around that just everyone was going to want it. Even 3G is slow to roll out and you think we'll be lining up to buy a computer to send out a holographic butler? LOL!!!!!!!! Holographic butlers will do no better for pc sales than bar code scanners have done for refrigerators. Absolutely hilarious to think about how stupid marketing people think we are though. My brother told me 8 years ago that video stores would be gone within 3 years because everyone was going to watch videos on their computers. I laughed in his face! I still go to the video store and he hasn't lived down that comment. He no longer thinks video stores will go under in three years. He gives them 10 now. Hmmm... that's 15 years longer than his first estimate! When is it you think this holographic butler is coming? Three years? Will XP support this? If not, why should I buy it now? Maybe waiting for the next OS would be better or the one after that or the one after that or even the one after that. Hell. Maybe it won't even need a pc! Maybe I can use a small cheaper appliance and forget upgrading the pc at all!