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

To: K. M. Strickler who wrote (4885)	1/30/1998 8:01:00 PM
From: Alan Buckley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

[...somewhere down the road, I won't need the next generation of software, since I won't be using any of the 'new and improved' whatsits, and I will just continue to use the old computer! ] Don't we all dream of that day, and of course it's MSFTs nightmare, given that much of their revenue is derived from upgrades. Its one reason the Internet craze has been such a godsend to MSFT share-holders. Gives everyone a compelling reason to upgrade. Personally, I don't see this plateau happening in the OS for a good many years, but it may be a problem for the application suites. How many people really need voice recognition? It will be interesting to see.

To: K. M. Strickler who wrote (4885)	1/31/1998 11:28:00 PM
From: Paul Fiondella	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

You can do OS software development yourself. Well that is the principle behind LInux. Back in 1976 I watched guys go home at night to wire together keyboards from parts so that they could get their Altair type PCs to say "hello". You want to do that with your life? ==================== I personally feel the computer industry is not at the level of a science. Someone will come along like Newton and take this garbage that we use and reduce it to a simple and intelligent principle. But it hasn't happened yet. (And it will never happen during the reign of MSFT.) As for myself, I used to do software development and quite innovative stuff too. Now what I do, I do for myself. I have absolutely no incentive to share it with the world. No desire to make Bill Gates any richer. No desire to reward the software thieves that can't do anything but steal other people's work. I don't need the money and frankly I'm not into helping fools find their way through life. Most of the new ideas in this industry are already 25 years old. We just have a generation that grew up on Windows and hasn't got a clue.