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

To: Bearded One who wrote (5391)	3/8/1998 1:35:00 AM
From: Bagman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

I just love quips. I'm not sure you're old enough to have restled with the first Apple word processor on my Atari 1200, Wordstar, Multimate, Wordperfect, Lotus 123 (and the abominable Allways, first attempt at GUI environment). Trying to work with all of them in Atari, DOS, Win3.0, or even 3.1 was a joke, the learning curve was steep, and trying to teach it to your employees was too daunting to those of us who work for a living, and had no one to call upon. When MS Word 6.0 hit the streets, I was in heaven, and jumped to Excel and MS Office in a heartbeat, never looking back. Now I can show my employees how to fire it up, and let them take it from there, no arcane languages, bizarre menus, or F keys to memorize. And you tell me that people haven't wanted the "Office Suite" approach? You're out to lunch, or just too young to remember the "bad old days". From one who has been in the trenches of PC's since TI and Apple II (early 70's). No offense taken or given, but one line quips are a cheap shot not worthy of a great service like Silicon Investor.

To: Bearded One who wrote (5391)	3/8/1998 12:41:00 PM
From: The Duke of URL©	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

"same buttons" And another thing. I watched as much of the Hatchet Hearings as time would allow. Stuart Alsop, said something that was very surprising at the time but upon reflection is worthy of much consideration: To the effect that, "Microsoft is a monopoly, people WANT a monopoly of the operating system." The ease, the consistency, the commonality. Sun professes to want this but we all "know" what they really want is to tie Java to sales of SPARC. and that after everyone dumps WIN, they will make Java more proprietary. Gates for some reason did not answer the question of why Windows beat Apple. Apple was a PROPRIETARY operating system. That is the END of the message. The real problem is, if the operating system is like the dial tone, Congress may try to make it a government controlled "utility". The problem with this is that it took the phone companies 30 years to deploy ISDN and US Robotics took 30 minutes to develop x2. EOR (end of rant) Duke