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

To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (63320)	11/25/2001 10:54:42 AM
From: kvkkc1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Based on what an engineer on the CSCO thread wrote about installing XP, MSFT should be extremely happy that 9 out of 10 are sold pre-installed.knc Message 16696759

To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (63320)	11/25/2001 11:59:12 AM
From: The Duke of URL©	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Bill, don't confuse apples and oranges. The "won't have to deal with product activation" concern is resolved by the vendor, who will "pre-activate" a new machine with XP. However, even this machine can't be used to duplicate the operating system to another machine. The $89 second copy which I predict will drop to $59 soon will represent, in my humble opinion 2 times the pre-installed rate for the next two years. Yes, I am aware how much revenue this will add, but what EVERYONE is underestimating is the number of copies of 98 coupled with the free upgrades to XP which ms will release over the next year. At any rate, all things will be revealed in the fullness of time. BWTFDIKTIOMO.