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

To: DiViT who wrote (66737)	4/4/2002 5:06:48 PM
From: Charles Tutt	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74651

Software doesn't wear out like cars do. And I don't have to buy a new garage if I buy a new car. Charles Tutt (SM)

To: DiViT who wrote (66737)	4/4/2002 5:08:12 PM
From: alydar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

<<Do you still drive your first car or do you now drive an "upgrade".>> new cars come with new engines much like new pc's come with new os's. the problem arises when corporations are forced to upgrade their software when a new os is marketed. in this case, they are not buying new hardware but just updating their software. you must realize the distinction between the two. when you are purchasing a car everything is new. when the msft monopoly forces the corporate world to upgrade it is usually purchasing new software to run on old machines. come to think of it. maybe a good remedy would be to allow msft to only sell its software along when associated hardware is purchased and provide FREE software to all existing infrastructure devices to be compatable with the new hardware. that way it is not a forced software upgrade and the customer is only purchasing software on new pc based systems. oh, i forgot, msft designs their bloated crap to run on supercharged systems. still a thought to keep things simple. rocky.