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

To: ed who wrote (10241)	8/23/1998 10:31:00 PM
From: Rusty Johnson	Respond to of 74651

You already know how to use it. Linux isn't for everyone. Some people still love their Apple II or Commodore 64. XFree86 looks like the Windows desktop you are familiar with. The "Start" button is in the lower left corner. It's menu driven just like Windows. The KDE desktop looks like this: kde.org To me it looks like the RS/6000 AIX operating system I use at work. The Macintosh is a different operating system. Have you ever driven a Mac? The operating system is transparent to the user as you know. You're looking at the GUI. My understanding is that Windows is built on DOS. Hence, Windows NT. Even Bill Gates sees the limitations of Windows 95/98. Your future palmtop will be driven by something other than Windows CE or Linux in all probability. You won't care what the operating system is. It will look familiar. It will just be faster, cheaper and more reliable. You don't think Microsoft invented the desktop do you? Or Apple for that matter. I don't expect Word for Linux anytime soon but WordPerfect has a pretty good following. I'm very happy with Applix Office Suite. I'm sure you've seen the similarity in word processing software. Learning the differences in word processors to me is no more painful than the upgrade from Word 7.0 to Word 8.0. In the meantime you can run a Microsoft Windows emulator like Wabi. (I haven't used it. I use Interleaf instead of Word anyway.) The change to better operating systems on the desktop isn't going to happen overnight. But if you surf the web you're already taking advantage of Linux, Solaris, SCO Unix, JAVA and Apache ... The internet will make the desktop debate irrelevent in my opinion. Odds are we will see more change in the next ten years than in the last ten. I've said it before. There is one BIG disadvantage to Linux. I have to schedule beer breaks because it has never crashed on me. Linux ... Where do you want to go in the 21st century? No worries. Best of luck.