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

To: David Howe who wrote (63153)	11/19/2001 4:15:12 PM
From: alydar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

<<Second, the extra 10% is why people buy a product. I pay a bit more to have leather in my cars.>> --me too but think of all the cars made without leather interior. <<I pay a bit more to have a larger TV.>> --think of all the television sold 27" and smaller. <<I pay a bit more to have a slightly smaller cell phone.>> --me too but inexpensive cell phones now outnumber the expensive ones being sold because they provide basically the same functionality. <<If you think most people will pay a bit less in order to get a 90% product, you are wrong.>> --i respectively disagree with you on this statement.

To: David Howe who wrote (63153)	11/19/2001 6:50:19 PM
From: dybdahl	Respond to of 74651

I partly agree with you. Personally, I didn't change to use Linux until I found out how much I could not do on Windows, that I could do on Linux. I believe that most people, who change to Linux, do it because they find extra features in Linux not available or not included in Windows. I still find new applications in my Linux. The following applications that I have used before on Windows I don't need to buy or get any more because I use Linux: - Microsoft Office (Powerpoint, Access, Excel, Word) - Extra dictionaries for other languages - Microsoft Visio - Microsoft Outlook - Microsoft SourceSafe (Source-code and website storage) - Microsoft Frontpage - Microsoft Visual Studio - WinFax Pro - Corel Draw - Teleport Pro (grabbing a website) - PGP (encrypting e-mails) - Adobe Photoshop - Adobe Acrobat Writer - Webtrends (web log analyzer) - WinZIP - PC Anywhere - SSH (commercial software for encrypted ftp and remote administration) - Music composer software - CDDB enabled CD player (I know that this is in XP) - Ultraedit (ascii editor) - Antivirus software - Firewall software - ACDSee (image viewer) - Network sniffer software, snmp surveillance software and other network troubleshooting software Soon I will be able to add Microsoft Project and more applications to the list. And then there are all the tools that don't exist as part of Windows, too numerous to be mentioned here. Having done a lot with images, I really liked the image batch processing stuff in Linux very much. And then it's a very cool feature that you don't have to reinstall and reconfigure everything each time you get a new PC or a new OS version. When it comes to hardware, most people forget to look at the Hardware Compatibility Lists for Linux before they try to install it. The market makes it is quite easy to see which hardware is suitable for Windows - I've never heard anybody that tried to install Windows on a Macintosh computer. But if you look the at the Linux HCL, you will actually find that Macs are on the list. When it comes to the software included, a Red Hat Linux 7.2 is far superior to Windows with MS Office included. And the number of Windows applications needed to compare with a typical Linux distribution is rising fast. This means that the typical Windows user will be severely limited in the usability of his/her PC compared to a typical Linux user. And I didn't even mention the poor performance of Windows computers, that need to run antivirus software. Sometimes I really feel sorry for those who have to live with an operating system that needs antivirus software. Lars.