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

To: DownSouth who wrote (14320)	1/14/1999 8:27:00 PM
From: Andy Thomas	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74651

>> but I don't feel compelled to peel back the covers the way you probably do. You are interpolating other people's experience from your own--not necessarily valid, imo.<< Why don't you try being a technician on win9x machines and see what perceptions you get of customers' expectations versus the reality of this buggy software? To be fair, I enjoy win95. I also see the disconnect between what it is - persnickity - and what many customers seem to think it should be - flawless. Does MSFT ever describe their own programs as "persnickity," or even "feature bloated" or "slow?" I imagine not. If this is the case I call this being dishonest. You MSFT cheerleaders may have market psychology on your side, but to pretend that MSFT's software is written to the highest standards of quality would be a mistake. Whatever the case - love MSFT or hate them - if they go down so does everyone else. Having them as the bellwether on the NASDAQ is ridiculous and will in the end lead to ruin, imo. FWIW Andy

To: DownSouth who wrote (14320)	1/15/1999 12:55:00 AM
From: Gerald Walls	Respond to of 74651

BTW, I don't think that Win9x is such a pain, but I don't feel compelled to peel back the covers the way you probably do. I probably stress it a little more than most users but I'm not really a Power User. I agree Win9x is a pain. IE 4.x crashing my Active Desktop is almost (I say "almost" because it hasn't happened yet today) a daily occurrence (Click here to restore your Active Desktop). This last week some program interaction has twice caused the Symantec/McAfee Virus Shield to suddenly eat all my CPU time (I know this because when I'm finally able to get the task box to appear things returned to normal when I killed that program (and that program only the second time) things returned to normal). Outlook Express often refuses to download new news messages until I exit and restart it. Forwarding a page from IE though Outlook 98 after Outlook 98 has been invoked and exited often causes IE to crash the desktop. Even though it's a pain it is the unifying platform that allows us to have the common interface, single platform, inexpensive software we do today. I'll take Windows any day over having to reboot between two or three different OS's to run the programs I want.