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

To: cheryl williamson who wrote (10450)	9/2/1998 1:12:00 PM
From: mrknowitall	Respond to of 74651

Cheryl, you are correct in those comparisons, however, while consumer-level products are supposedly heading toward commoditization, the growth in deployments of business applications is still outpacing individual user computer growth. What I see in the future is that the continuing deployment of the MSFT OS and applications creates further pressure on individual users to make their home computers compatible. 3-4 years is too far to accurately predict, but I cannot see MSFT simply waiting around for someone to sneak up on them and deploy a better, let alone market-viable system that would attract the attention of the PC vendors. Two predictions, however: 1 - real "Plug and Play" (without the annoying "please insert your Windows CD) is going to be a requirement for the masses. This is going to require more than just fine tuning - other, especially hardware vendors, are going to have to take some responsibility for what they send to users. 2 - Speech recognition - the next level of human interface, has to get us out of this damn mouse/keybord environment ASAP. Lucent appears to be in the lead on this. A recommendation - to save the MSFT investors on this thread some time, can you and I take this discussion to the "evil empire" thread? Mr. K.