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

To: Jordan A. Sheridan who wrote (64321)	1/21/2002 5:26:35 PM
From: dybdahl	Respond to of 74651

Ok - that's a very small step in the right direction, but there is still a long way to upgrade Word while it is in use. On Linux, you just upgrade the software. If someone is using the old version, they'll continue to do so, until they close the program. Next time they open it, they'll get the new version. When the last user on a computer has closed the old version, it is released from the file system. This is done by the filesystem and not some fancy installation program. For instance, this might be a realistic timeline: 1) 5 users on a PC use Netscape 6.0. 2) Netscape 6.0 is upgraded to Netscape 6.1. 3) 2 new users click Netscape and 3 exit. Now there are 2 Netscape 6.1 users and 2 Netscape 6.0 users. 4) The last two Netscape 6.0 users close the window. 5) Netscape 6.0 is removed from the harddisk and frees space, because the file reference counts have reached zero. It's about running your computer in 24x7 duty - why tell people to log off just to use a new version of some piece of software? Why interrupt someone that is using the old version just because you install a new version? I have updated software on my parent's computers without visiting them and without checking whether they were using the software while I did the upgrade. Why should I? Btw - how many people do you actually believe will run Active Directory at home?