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To: Killswitch who wrote (14418)	10/21/2002 1:33:15 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 57684

ow are they going to sustain something that was achieved by forcing many customers to upgrade (who didn't really want to, and are now probably slightly miffed) due to special price breaks that ended after July 31? I think it's more likely they pulled in a bunch of purchases that would have occurred in future quarters. I'm not arguing that point really. I just think things are stabilizing and starting to improve in the tech arena barely. And during this recession msft has gained major mindshare in the enterprise imo (not that I'm happy about that btw). For example in 2000 we thought .NET was a dead dog. Now, SEBL is co-developing on it. It means msft will move up the food chain, and enterprise apps have a costly maintenance component which msft is going to start to benefit from. This new pricing strategy is the start of that, imo. It doesn't matter that nobody likes it. L