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

To: George Jenkins who wrote (4889)	1/30/1998 10:41:00 PM
From: Jim Lamb	Respond to of 74651

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To: George Jenkins who wrote (4889)	1/31/1998 12:22:00 AM
From: K. M. Strickler	Respond to of 74651

Just crusin'! I know and you know that you are correct in your analysis of which operating system you can have installed. That being said, when I look through the 'software' catalogs that cross my desk, it seems that the choices the I have are limited to MS 3.1 (3.11), W95 and MAC. (Even MAC is not available on everything.) Even though the 'other' operating systems (might, could, should - pick one) be better, I can't obtain the wide range of software that I can with MS. I am hoping that MS eventually makes its' OS as 'ROBUST' as some of the others. The administration in all pf the OS's could be improved as far as I'm concerned! But remember my quote: "Nothing is too difficult for the person that DOESN'T have to do it!" Thoughts? Ken

To: George Jenkins who wrote (4889)	1/31/1998 2:51:00 PM
From: X-Ray Man	Respond to of 74651

Wrong, George. The cost is hidden, but is there. In fact, I buy systems that way, and when I get them sans OS, in fact they have Win 3.1 on them. Why, I queried one vendor? Well, because we have to pay for the license anyway. This is the standard MSFT OS license agreement with OEM PC manufacturers that bundle MSFT. The only OEMs that don't do this are the ones that don't offer bundled Windows. Hmmm, where do you buy a non-upgrade version of Windows? Ahhh, interesting question ;-)