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

To: David Howe who wrote (63353)	11/26/2001 12:09:05 AM
From: alydar	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

<<Nope, and what does this have to do with my post on Linux?>> dave, if you don't have broadband there is no way you can comment on the future of the internet. the download speeds are amazingly fast. if you had broadband you would see the importance of it and especially over cpu power. broadband is to the internet as the cpu processing chip was to the pc. the only problem with your analysis and msft's product strategy is that we are entering the internet era and not the pc era. it appears that neither one of you are well positioned for the future. by the way, you can get broadband through a satellite dish. don't they pay you microphiles enough to have a dish? rocky.

To: David Howe who wrote (63353)	11/26/2001 7:57:10 AM
From: Timetobuy	Respond to of 74651

The only thing connected with linux is the fact that the mother computer on a home networking system can be linux based and even a very old slow computer can sit in a closet and run the whole network just fine. It's not what I have, and there is no way in hell that I'm changing what works now, but I know it works just fine. My computer is fine and will continue to be because I use it mostly on the internet. The bottleneck in speed is not in the system but rather in the connection. This is why I will not be upgrading. I see no need. I can guarantee 100% that you will upgrade to broadband before I buy a new system! And this is why the FO and IC chip companies will out perform over the next decade BY FAR the pc based companies. I'm surprised you, of all people are living this far in the past and don't even have the faintest clue what you're missing. All those wonderful homes in your neighborhood with CAT 5 wiring you were so proud of and no connection available? What a rip off!

To: David Howe who wrote (63353)	11/26/2001 5:31:03 PM
From: FR1	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Anyways, the area that I live in doesn't have a single broadband solution available....I live in a fairly newly built suburb of Bellevue Both DISH and GMH offer broadband internet access using transponders in the dish (no land lines). I bet almost anyone in the US can get service from them. To compete with the cable companies' high-speed Internet service, both major satellite providers have launched their own broadband services. And Dish Network recently introduced a system that allows subscribers to record programs onto an electronic hard drive much like the TiVo personal video recorder. dishnetwork.com