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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DRBES who wrote (40477)	10/30/1998 7:22:00 PM
From: Maurice H. Norcott	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573927

1999 to be a VERY good year ? " Corporate studies show that about 85 percent of desktop hardware will fail in the year 2000 and probably a third of the software won't make the grade, either, but we'll be strongly encouraged to start from scratch, earning billions for Microsoft and Intel. We'll be told that it is easier to just start over then even to test your current configuration. And we'll be told that it isn't enough to upgrade your own desktop. If your PC is part of a network, the only safe solution is to upgrade everything." pbs.org