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

To: dybdahl who wrote (63020)	11/14/2001 11:43:45 AM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 74651

Lars - I have more than 10 machines running pretty much all the time, and have had for maybe 20 years. I have never had a hard disk failure, ever... once I had one start to get flaky and replaced it (which is how I got acquainted with Norton Ghost). So I don't think it's something that is a likely occurrence. As far as the "windows gets unstable" problem, WinME allows system restore points which allow the user to go back to a previous configuration, and it allows you to try some relatively non-intrusive things first, then back-rev drivers and registry entries, up to a complete restore of the system as it was at some point in time. That comes with the system. I don't happen to think the "new" CD-less OEM distribution is as user friendly as the older versions. But since I have never had to actually use it, I can't claim to have been inconvenienced.