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

To: dybdahl who wrote (62259)	10/28/2001 4:17:13 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Lars - I agree with most of your points on the European sensibility. I am running the RC1 version of XP which is equivalent to XP professional, and so I can't comment on the file system in "home" - maybe someone who has the home version could comment. I have a tri-band phone which provides the European style services when I am in a GSM network which supports them, and I found the messaging options to be quite useful. I'm not quite ready to use my phone to pay for groceries and so on but I can see that as a handy feature. Netmeeting was kind of a stealth capability in the US as well. XP presents an integrated instant messaging function which has all of the netmeeting capability and more, and many people are playing with it. I have had more than a dozen people try it with me. You don't need a Microsoft server to connect if you know the IP address of each party. And with a little more work you can penetrate a NAT. With the Microsoft-supplied home networking NAT, it is transparent. On Office97, I had one Win98 system with Office97, and when I upgraded it, the conversion files were automatically included. I suspect they try and detect what you are currently using and provide support for it. But given the wide range of office products in use (despite the commanding MS share, there are people who use other products), it makes sense for them to only load converters for the things people want. One can always load whatever converters are needed from the CD if they were not installed with the base installation.