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

To: Dave who wrote (62751)	11/8/2001 2:58:37 PM
From: Bill Fischofer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Hardware and software are completely symbiotic in relation to Moore's Law. Ever-more sophisticated software is what permits ever-more capable hardware to be used in novel ways and those same hardware advances are needed to run that new software. This is why the notion of trying to run 2001 software on 1990 hardware is absurd, just as is pretending that 2001 software will be adequate to drive the hardware that will be commonplace in 2005 and beyond. I took 50 years to produce a 100MHz microprocessor. We're now adding 100MHz increments to mainstream processors about every month and that pace is only accelerating. The pace of change is quickening each year, and pretending that it isn't is what leads to pointless debates about whether putting a web browser into an OS is something that "harms consumers".