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

To: DiViT who wrote (63024)	11/14/2001 12:03:37 PM
From: Dave	Respond to of 74651

Then it must certainly upset you that in order to use new features TIED into a new OS, you are forced to buy new proprietary hardware, from the very same company providing the new OS and throw away the perfectly good obsoleted proprietary hardware you had spent your hard earned money on. What on earth are you rambling on about? If you're talking about Mac OS, you're way off base. What "obsoleted proprietary hardware" are you talking about? I am running the very latest Macintosh software on several machines, one of which was made by Power Computing in the early 90's. It's true that Mac OS X only runs on G3 or G4 processors, but Apple is still improving and shipping Mac OS 9 as well. Keep trying though. It's very amusing. I particularly enjoyed that zinger you wrote today about how it's my fault that my Dell machine required system backup on forty floppies because I should have bought a CD-R device, even though at the time that device would have cost about twice what the whole computer cost. And as for this one... "Porting Office to another platform has never been an antitrust issue." ...Was so. Dave