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

To: tbigb who wrote (62233)	10/27/2001 7:16:54 PM
From: Dave	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Actually, tbigb, I will buy XP soon. The project I'm working on has to be compatible with Mac OS 9 & X, and Windows 95/98/ME & NT/2K/XP. So I'm going to have to get Yet Another Damnable PC. Of course, like most people, I'm not going to even attempt an XP upgrade on an existing machine. I'll just buy another low-cost computer. (serious question here, not bagging on MSFT for a second...) By the way, I'm not clear on the differences between XP Professional and XP Home. What's missing in the Home version? If an app works on Home, is it almost guaranteed to work with Professional? What new features do I get in XP Home or XP Pro over Win 2K? Dave

To: tbigb who wrote (62233)	10/28/2001 5:34:14 PM
From: dybdahl	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 74651

Did you notice that launch event in New York? Here we are talking about a global company that is launching a global product globally, with the central event in New York, and then they say stuff like "God bless America" and trying to associate with US patriotism. I wonder if they coordinated that with the rest of the world. Not that I have anything against Americans sayng it - I even wrote that myself in some chats mid september, but it sells just as good in Europe as having a European selling Volkswagen in U.S. by saying "Deutschland über alles". Microsoft seems not to care anything about their world market - they focus totally on the U.S. market. If they would be the least interested in Europe, they would have created a European event, too, big enough to hit the news, or they would have made the New York event internationally minded. Let's hope that the U.S. market is big enough to feed investors. Lars.