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To: Elwood P. Dowd who wrote (28784)	7/10/1998 8:44:00 AM
From: PCSS	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

El, et al, The Mosberg report on CPQ Presarios on CNBC's Power Lunch yesterday was alright although a MAJOR part of the report was critical about the CPQ Presarios' Internet Butttons ! Seems like the buttons (at this time): (1) send you to CPQ paid-advertiser URLs and (2) are EXTREMELY HARD TO RECONFIGURE so you can go directly to your favorie sites instead, and (3) are perturbing. This annoying inability to "reconfigure" point was fed back to CPQ by the beta testers ... CPQ said, (1) a method to reconfigure was on the CPQ web-site (the beta testers found the web-site "method" directions almost impossible to locate and then difficult to implement), and (2) that an easier "reconfigure" process would be implemented in the next Presario release due in the fall. Other points were: (1) CPQ should keep hardware and advertising separate, and (2) If not #1, CPQ should reduce its PC price to $100ish similar to web-TV. I can appreciate some of CPQ's reasoning for doing this especialy after reading caisson's informative "Can AltaVista stand alone?" post of yesterday. Unfortunately, the Mossberg/ CNBC report which could have been CPQ-postive turned into a visible bitching session.