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

To: JEFF CHAPMAN who wrote (8903)	7/2/1998 6:54:00 PM
From: Bill Fischofer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Re: Windows 98 upgrades Folks still don't get it. Does anyone think MSFT cares what folks do with rusted-out 486s? Frankly if not a single computer on the planet upgraded to Windows 98 MSFT would still have a blockbuster product on its hands. Why? It's all about jumpstarting the next round of new PC purchasing. Open your eyes folks. If the auto industry ran the way some folks think the PC industry runs they'd have closed Detroit decades ago because after all, by then most folks had bought a car. Why did CompUSA issue an earnings warning? Because consumers delayed purchasing new PCs waiting for Windows 98 to arrive. Now that it's here there is a mad scramble to fill the demand backlog. Consumers understand that a PC is a disposable item that's good for at most three or four years and then needs to be replaced. Why is Gateway pushing its "Yourware" program? (think auto leasing). Attempting to "upgrade" anything more than at most a year old to Windows 98 is just plain silly. Check the features and pricing on new PCs as the months go by and just toss the old one when you're sufficiently embarrassed.