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

To: Rusty Johnson who wrote (17342)	3/7/1999 2:14:00 PM
From: t2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

It seems like you are very computer literate. That is why you are comfortable with that software(forgot what you called it). The vast majority in the corporate and consumer world will not adopt it. Companies' just can't afford to spend so much of their training budget on learning new application software---this would happen each time you get new employees. So what do they do? It is obvious. Pay the "damn" cash and get the upgrade for Office or whatever. Still is cheaper to spend a little extra in software than re-training. The same goes for that O/S. Microsoft has a "favorite supplier" position in corporate America. This is why Linux will be DOA once Windows2000 is shipped. The corporate world is just too competitive and people just don't want to gamble on something new especially when more other costs are associated. The thinking is to stay with MSFT even if another product may be better. The betting is that MSFT will improve sooner or later. Rusty, that may not be right but it is reality. That is why my loyalty is not to MSFT but to its stock. I have dumped other favorites like Dell once I felt they will not be "number 1". I have to admit that i made most of my money in MSFT options and do have some loyalty to Bill Gates. If the stock is doomed one day, I will buy the products but not the stock. It is the only stock that i feel this way about. BTW-don't take offense to the "rusty toy" name in my last post. Sorry, I did not mean to be "lumping" you with Toysoldier. That is just too cruel!! Toy is in a class all by himself<g> But if you are happy---it is now Rusty Toy.

To: Rusty Johnson who wrote (17342)	3/7/1999 10:48:00 PM
From: Kevin Podsiadlik	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

I believe Word has a 30M limit for documents. That must affect a huge segment of the market. I wonder how Microsoft could possibly be getting along. It sounds like you don't understand how to use "books" in Interleaf. People that don't like it ... don't know how to use it. On the contrary, I was the one who found the solution. (Goes with the job.) It was after it worked, that I and the person who had had the problem reflected on the solution's apalling unintuitiveness. Dare I even go into what Interleaf 5 was like. Hey, if you're willing to totally sacrifice ease-of-use in favor of raw power, you've found your tool for the job. The question is, are your needs representative of the general computing market? I'd like to get a pair of rose colored Microsoft blinders. Mixing metaphors doesn't make them any less tired. Or inaccurate.