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

To: David Howe who wrote (61938)	10/22/2001 12:59:39 PM
From: Timetobuy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

My house was custom built and includes CAT 5 throughout the ENTIRE house. There are 15 home networking connections. He also said video stores would be going out of business a few years ago. Online streaming video would put them under. The reason I mentioned it was your story of the butler. Is he going to put the virtual reality shops under? No. I'd rather go out than have something like that in my house. CAT 5 is STANDARD even in LOW END CONDOS now. STANDARD.

To: David Howe who wrote (61938)	10/23/2001 3:23:12 PM
From: LTK007	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

<<Any chance there's a middle ground? Of course there is. People buy PC's every day. It's because they are old and don't run new software very well. Your vision of NO new improvements in PCs of software is extreme and false. You're brother's "wouldn't sell" comment is extreme and false. Obviously the answer is somewhere in the middle.>>i bought a loaded Presario 3 years ago--there is absolutely NO need to buy another computer again.PC industry has greatly overestimated the need to upgrade to faster ad faster and faster--when fast is just fine. XP is in NO way essential except for the hard core tech heads that JUST don't get it---the overall population does NOT crave the newest intentional BS upgrade to try to revive the PC industry. Why buy a new PC just so i can have XP--no thanks. This is classic overkill by MSFT.IMO.Max p.s. my PC is pentium500/Athlon equipt/DVD/128mb/10ghz/yadda yadda--why more?--no reason.