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Technology Stocks : WDC/Sandisk Corporation -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Steve Lee who wrote (21105)	11/3/2001 1:17:35 PM
From: Ausdauer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

Steve, OT I would buy Windows XP if I were in the market for a new PC, which I am not. I understand there is multimedia support which is good for digital camera and digital video users. BTW, Windows 2000/ME supports SanDisk USB card readers without the need of any separate drivers, FWIW. I have a Pentium-based tower PC running at 400 or 600 MHz and 256 MB of RAM and a DSL connection. I haven't found any new software applications which would justify an upgrade purchase beyond Win 98 that I am currently running. At work all of our PC's are running Win 95 which doesn't allow for USB support, so everyone with USB cradles for their handhelds is upset with our IT department. I imagine our hospital has budgeted for an upgrade of the OS across the enterprise. I don't know what pent up demand for upgrades exists. I imagine many blew their '99-'00 budgets for Y2K compliance issues. Are most people seeing a trend toward significant IT purchases to upgrade to XP? Aus

To: Steve Lee who wrote (21105)	11/4/2001 9:30:30 PM
From: Craig Freeman	Respond to of 60323

Steve, re: "any data points to suggest there is pent up demand in the PC market?" An excellent question! Yes. From what I have learned being in the field ... Business users will soon obsolete Win/95 and Win/98 installations. About half will center on Win/2000 and the other half on Win/XP. In general, business "end users" almost never get "upgrades" but rather are forced to get "replacements" by their support group (internal MIS, third-party support, etc.) None of those decisions are driven by end-user needs but rather by the needs of the person in charge of making changes .. whose decisions are often more oriented toward maximizing the decision-maker's vacation days. The idea of laying waste to many thousands of users so that one person can have an extra vacation day, makes me sick. But, in corporate environments, people are trained to "go with the flow". Me ... I took the time to negotiate my own contract so that I could have the right to comment on the performance of others and to reasonably control my own destiny. Craig