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

To: Hal Rubel who wrote (7735)	5/20/1998 6:42:00 PM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

I was wondering when you would be bringing up Apple's plug and play. I have it on good authority that Apple's plug and play doesn't work any better than Microsoft's. I don't mean 10 or 12 years ago either. I mean as recently as two years ago. Things didn't work as they were supposed to. Bugs. Patches. Glitches. This admission was from someone who has written applications for the Mac for use in the field of nuclear fusion research. I mean the real research, down at Lawrence Livermore Laboratories in Livermore CA, which gets its funding from the US Dept of Energy. This person procures and uses both Macs and Wintel machines, Unix, NT, etc. He's mostly a MacIntosh fan. I'm not anti-Mac. There's nothing in it for me to be anti-Mac. But in re It means you have a slightly more expensive product, but it also means you have a more valuable product. You might want to read last Fall's annual printer roundup in PC Magazine. The color inkjet section. The Mac's print quality was the worst of the whole bunch.

To: Hal Rubel who wrote (7735)	5/20/1998 9:46:00 PM
From: dumbmoney	Respond to of 74651

Kluge vs Innovation: As you may well know, Apple has been doing it for 12 years for the same products you list. The concept was called "Plug and Play!" back in the 80s. Its an old selling point Apple no longer bothers to mention. First you create types of peripheral standards, then suppliers write to them. Simple. It means you have a slightly more expensive product, but it also means you have a more valuable product. Blame IBM! It was their stupid design that caused the problems. Intel and Microsoft have worked hard to evolve the PC platform beyond ISA, and the effort is succeeding. Most new devices are PCI. If Microsoft is "slow", it's not for lack of effort. The resources they are putting into OS development is enormously greater then even a couple years ago.