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

To: nommedeguerre who wrote (7205)	5/15/1998 3:00:00 AM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

re Poor logic; you left out BeOS, Linux, PalmOS, pSOS, QNX, and RMX. I assumed correctly that saying "buy a Mac, buy OS/2" would enable you to get the drift without me listing every operating system available. re And if the Pontiac dealer won't sell me a Firebird with a Blaupunkt installed, I can always buy a Ferrari, Maserati or Porsche instead. What's the analogy there? You want Netscape, go to their web-site and down-load it. It's free also, just like IE. A not often quoted fact is that MSFT has offered computer manufacturers Win95 without IE. Not one PC manufacturer wanted it. So that's not MSFT's fault. Complain to the PC mfrs if you don't want something for free.

To: nommedeguerre who wrote (7205)	5/15/1998 3:15:00 AM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Also Norm, if your beef is that you don't want Win95 at all, then simply buy from a vendor who isn't offering Win95 with the PC. Here you go, where choice is plentiful: tigerdirect.com You can order fully assembled systems, with your choice of seven different processors from IBM/Cyrix, AMD, or Intel. The price includes everything except hard drive, memory, operating system and monitor. You buy those components separately from the vendor of your choice, and I'm sure TigerDirect hopes you will choose to buy these components for your system from them also. It's a free market. There are probably thousands of PC vendors out there who would be only too happy to sell you a PC without the operating system. Many I'm sure would be only too happy to install the OS of your choice for you, so it's preloaded.