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Technology Stocks : Microsoft - The Evil empire -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Robert Winchell who wrote (1234)	6/11/1998 5:58:00 PM
From: Kal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1600

The point is, the Internet is making people buy computers. they want to "get on the Internet", use the web, email, etc. So what do they do? They go buy a new computer to do it. What are they buying? PCs with Windows. The point is, you do not need a computer to use the internet. Case in point, which at the same time shows MS' understanding of the fact, is WEBTV. WebTV boxes are not computers the last I checked. E-commerce doesn't care about Windows. Which exactly is my point. Bill wants us to care about windows to acces internet or to perform ecommerce. Ecommerce makes the OS point moot, hence, Bill's paranoia about it. If I don't care about windows to do the above, I won't buy it. I could do ecommerce and surfing on a PalmPilot. I can't carry my computer (or care about a laptop) with me. Just an example.