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

To: t2 who wrote (16370)	2/18/1999 5:59:00 PM
From: limtex	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

t2000 - The idea of trying now to get a new Office for PCs in the market is just a waste of time. Who on earth wants the bother of learning a new Word or Excell or Powerpoint anyway those that do have that choice today with the Word Perfect family and they are very good products indeed. No the real issue is as follows:- For years now I have looked forward to the next x86 processor coming out. I have loved every one of them and they have changed my life for the better. I now have a Toshiba 3015CT and I'm using it in a hotel room to type this post. Its the best I've had and weighs only a couple of pounds and I can't thibnk of anything else I need today EXCEPT and here's the crunch: I don't need all this computing power. Sure I use Word and Excel ( but I don't need 30,000 lines) and occasionally Power Point. My big usage is as follows:- 1. AOL 2. ECCO (can't wait till they find the buyer they aere looking for and get on with developments) 3. Word. 4. Excel 5. Official Airline Guide 6. MSN as a backup for AOL. Thats it and WHAT I REAALY WOULD LIKE IS to be able to have instant on/instant off. I would pay another say $500 for a machine no worse than the 3015CT that had that ability. NOW GUESS WHAT that machine already exists and it is the HP Journada and like machines. BUT they use CE, OK I can live quite well with that BUT they don't support AOL and that is my problem. Once there is a good CE machine with AOL I will no longer need the massive computing power of a full Windows 98 with a 686 or Merced or higher until we start to get wireless 3-dimension real time video and congferencing ( which I'm sure isn't far way with the QCOM/MSFT deal) but in the meantime I could quite easily use an instant on/instant off Journada type machine if it had AOL and I bet quite a few others agree. Regards, L