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

To: dybdahl who wrote (62251)	10/28/2001 9:38:30 AM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Lars - I think you need to remember that Denmark is not the world... As far as "a power failure safe file system" - XP uses NTFS by default, which is indeed a power-safe journaling file system. If users chose FAT instead they have no one but themselves to blame. Your earlier comments do not seem to extend even to Europe in general. I spent most of the summer in Europe - Germany, the UK and France. I found a greatly increased interest in the things leading edge users in the US are starting to take for granted - instant messaging, high bandwidth peer to peer, wireless networking. I also found that the bloom was seriously off the rose on small form factor access like portable phones, as opposed to the expectations of a year ago. A quick poll of a few of the people I met with over the summer showed a great deal of interest in XP and the functionality displayed in the launch activities - if anything, greater than in the US where many of those capabilities are already routine. I also had a number of calls from people here and abroad who were just installing XP and wanted to "try out" some of the features - instant video messaging, remote desktop, and so on - which needed someone remote to exercise. The mood is a lot like what I saw 20 years ago when VT220 users wanted to try some of the stuff they saw on PCs... folks just want to put it up and fool around, and their reactions are pretty much "gee whiz that's cool". I think you and others are greatly underestimating the impact this OS will have.