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

To: ed who wrote (10225)	8/23/1998 9:46:00 AM
From: Mike Milde	Respond to of 74651

<< Besides, all my files are in Winword, Excel, powerpoint, and it is very hard to convert. Besides, how can I communicate with people who run on Linux if I am on WIndow ? >> This is all a desktop issue. Linux threatens the servers and developer's machines. But you're right, most end users will find it hard to leave Microsoft. No doubt, Microsoft likes it that way. Mike

To: ed who wrote (10225)	8/23/1998 5:03:00 PM
From: J Krnjeu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Mr. ed, Sorry, I mean no disrespect for the greeting. Very common sense message. Your right, most PC users will want to stay with windows. Most of the bashers of MS will look at the situation and remove the most important part of the equation which is people. People do not want to spend hours trying to learn something that is difficult enough for them to understand and then spend more time learning something different to do something the can already do the first way. PC users have a life and it doesn't include spending hours to learn and relearn the same task differently. There are PC users still running dos because they don't want to spend the time to learn windows. Thank you JK