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Technology Stocks : Microsoft - The Evil empire -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: P.T.Burnem who wrote (29)	10/26/1997 12:08:00 AM
From: Tom D	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1600

Office '98 for networked Windows won't run on 32 mg RAM. The network administrator for our corporate intranet came by last week and upgraded the RAM on my PC to 64 mg. He told me that Office '98 needs 34 mg of RAM. Says that we have to upgrade everything or we won't be able to communicate with the outside world. Says that older versions of Word and Excel won't be compatible with the newer versions so we have to buy newer versions. Hopefully faster PC clock speeds, and faster JAVA will give us a vaible alternative to the Windows. I don't know anybody who is happy buying Microsoft products. Best Wishes for this Noble Effort, Tom D

To: P.T.Burnem who wrote (29)	10/26/1997 9:08:00 AM
From: Columbo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1600

Preach it Brother PTB, So is MSFT a Buy? MH #0

To: P.T.Burnem who wrote (29)	10/26/1997 9:11:00 AM
From: Columbo	Respond to of 1600

MSFT constantly reminds me of the biggest investment mistake. It sure would be fun bashing them as a retired shareholder. MH #0

To: P.T.Burnem who wrote (29)	12/10/1997 4:57:00 AM
From: shades	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1600

BS! It has everything to do with investing. The Evil Empire uses its OS dominance to stiffle competition, which in turn slows the rate of innovation in the software industry. The resulting shortage of killer apps bodes ill for the PC industry as a whole. When the public wants something better even microsoft can't stop 250 million consumers. IBM tried and a small company upset them, when Microsoft goes against what we want they will die too, I don;t feel that has happened yet, but I may be starting now as criticism for this company rises higher and higher, but it should be justified criticism, not make belive. Microsoft for whatever evil you fell they may have done, have helped standards in teh industry which is very important, can you imagine writing software for an apple, ibm, amiga, atari, etc etc and then wehn you do get to the ibm you have to write it for os2, windows, etc etc, we needed a standardm they gave it to us, if the screw us we will not buy their product, if you really hate micorsoft, buy up every copy of windowa 95 and 98 when it is realeased and save the public from what they want, not what yo WISH upon them. ML (MICROSOFT LOVER - for now ) #1