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

To: tbigb who wrote (62321)	10/30/2001 12:54:22 PM
From: David Howe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

<< Which state do you live in? >> The same one you do. I went to the store in Bellevue Washington. By the way, last night I had the distinct pleasure of loading Win XP on a fairly recent laptop (750 mhz). The upgrade was a snap and the performance is great (very fast boot time). I'm sure everyone will be pleased to know (sarcasm) that my two biggest beefs with my old laptop (300 mhz) are no longer problems. There are numerous performance and feature improvements, but two that jump out at me are: 1. On the 750 machine, my video intense Links 2001 game is now operating like it should. Instead of "thinking" between shots for 10 seconds, it now only thinks for about 1 second. This is an extreme improvement. It also flows smoothly and the shots are never interupted by pauses as the machine tries to catch up with the software (leading to an occasional duck hook). 2. On the 300 mhz machine Office XP would not run speech recognition (it typed gibberish and wouldn't run any of the task bars). The 750 runs it almost perfectly. I was amazed at how functional this software works on a relatively fast machine. If you guys haven't tried speech recognition you should, it speeds up everything. In addition, now I can feed the baby and type a message, letter, or whatever, HANDS FREE! <g> Highlight a phrase and speak the following "font, arial, 12, bold, center, ok" and it happens right before your eyes. Truly amazing. If the processor speeds of PDA's ever get high enough to run this software, think of the improvements in PDA use. Driving in your car, you can type an email via your voice. It's tough enough to type on a PDA, but with speech recognition it will be a breeze. Win XP and Office XP will be widely adopted, IMO. Dave