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

To: Kevin Hay who wrote (9344)	7/16/1998 5:30:00 PM
From: Michael L. Voorhees	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 74651

Every article that I have read on Windows 98 have basically called it a disgrace to software development. Windows 98 is a piece of trash.

To: Kevin Hay who wrote (9344)	7/16/1998 5:38:00 PM
From: Bearded One	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

My slowdown remark was serious-- it was a response to the position of many on this thread who remarked at the "surprisingly high user demand" for Windows 98, plus all the statements from analysts at how Windows 98 was selling "much better than expected." Obviously, nobody expects the 10th day of a sale to beat the first when you have pre-ordering. But only a half million in the 15 days? Also, we don't know what the graph looks like. It could be 500,000 in the first 2 days, 8 hundred thousand in the first 7 days, and a million in the first 17 days. That would knock the sale rate down to 20 thousand a day now. As for 1 out of 10 being unsatisfied-- this is not a major upgrade, and it is an upgrade to an operating system. If your OS is screwy, all your programs suffer. And when it comes to a very optional upgrade to your OS, 1 out of 10 negative reviews may be enough to kill sales of the upgrade. On the other hand, a specialized program which you need may be worth the pain.