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

To: Hal Rubel who wrote (7743)	5/20/1998 10:11:00 PM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Respond to of 74651

re Buy the way, if you want to have some real fun, post those Apple "Plug and Play" observations of yours on the Apple board and stand back. HR he he, thanks but no. I'm NOT familiar enough with Apple's P-n-P. All I have is one anecdotal experience. My main point in re MSFT's "slow response" is that Microsoft has always had a larger number of peripherals to contend with. I'm in complete agreement with the observation that the Mac was 8-10 years ahead of MS-Dos. The difference is that the IBM-compatible platform was always cheaper. Maybe technically inferior to the Mac yes, but cheaper. And then very early on, there were more applications written for the IBM compatible. This is a fact. I became self-employed as an accountant in 1987. I computerized my first set of small business accounting records on an Apple IIe, which had no hard drive. I concluded, after a couple-month period, that it would be faster to do the books by pen, ledger, and calculator. But I continued to shop around. I looked for Apple software. I found one package available, and was told that this was the only package. The package didn't have what I needed for the small business client I had in mind. I was able to choose between several packages for the IBM-Compatible platform. Some were junk. I went through many software packages. One I paid $800 for and never used, but the company wouldn't take it back. Eventually I found what I was looking for though, still on the IBM compatible platform. Hal, Apple blew it by being too selfish and greedy. They failed to learn the value of sharing. I have no pity for them. DK