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

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (63327)	11/25/2001 12:42:17 PM
From: Bill Fischofer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Clearly more than originally projected and that can only represent upside. But I agree that this is a dwindling market.

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (63327)	11/26/2001 6:36:33 PM
From: nommedeguerre	Respond to of 74651

Charles, "I think the "popularity of family licenses" is probably a fabrication?" Either that or they never planned on selling more than a few million copies of WindowsXP. More than likely they are having "issues" with product activation and this is a marketing spin to turn a technical problem into a marketing tool. Meanwhile, people should just wait patiently (like always) and stare at their PC which can't run the OS they just purchased because the ever popular license activation scheme wasn't tested properly... If they can't handle a simple license activation how are they going to handle those "seamless" remote OS updates? Looks like they are turning the reboot, reformat, reinstall experience into an American tradition, like Halloween. Cheers, Norm