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

To: jim shiau who wrote (7012)	5/13/1998 11:10:00 AM
From: yard_man	Respond to of 74651

I'm not sure about that. Why should a word processor, a spreadsheet, or a database be considered a "heavy weight application?" It's just the way MSFT has written them. I consider myself to be a 'power' user of these programs, but there are scads of features that I don't use. Also, perhaps I'm overly optimistic, but I think that networks will be able to be run reliably at some point in the future -- especially local ones. The idea of 'localizing' the software for updates and changes is a good one --- it appears that the quality is not there yet or the folks I deal with don't know how to run them. Ultimately, it shouldn't take some kind of tech specialist to run a network or the design engineers have failed somewhere along the line, IMO.