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

To: sandeep who wrote (62946)	11/13/2001 8:03:24 AM
From: Bill Fischofer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Thank you for confirming the "continuing skepticism" I referred to in my post. <g>

To: sandeep who wrote (62946)	11/15/2001 8:58:26 PM
From: Dave	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

From ZDNet: Windows XP--a hit or a miss? zdnet.com Research firm NPD Intelect estimates that retailers sold about 232,000 copies of Windows XP its first week on the market. That works out to about $26.5 million in sales. The market researcher cautioned that the figures are preliminary and incomplete, accounting for only about 60 percent of retailers. By way of rough comparison, Windows 95 and Windows 98 each sold 600,000 copies in the first month, according to PC Data, which was acquired by NPD Intelect. In its first four days on the market, Windows Me sold 250,000 copies, according to NPD Intelect. Typically, operating system sales peak in the first week and then fall off dramatically. The XP sales figures also don't take into account copies of the operating system included on new PCs, which makes comparisons with previous products even more tenuous. Today more consumers upgrade their operating system by buying a new computer than they did in the past. Microsoft declined to comment on XP sales.