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

To: DownSouth who wrote (9582)	7/23/1998 4:24:00 PM
From: Stormweaver	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

>I see your point. But so what? We pay big bucks for software >maintenance contracts for every other major OS (like UNIX). $90 to Bug fixes to any piece of software sold should be free since they prevent the software from performing as it was intended. OS patches are free from any OS vendor I've dealt with. win98 = win95 OSR3 + more bugs in my opinion >>Gates is spending large $ on NT 4.x/5.x? >Should he not spend? Lots of cash. Perhaps he is addressing the >reliablity and scalability issues. He'd better since the corporate world is coming to the end of the "NT evaluation period". Reliability and scalability issues will push evaluators back to UNIX unless Cutler and his ex-DEC staff can do some power coding ;)