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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (55813)	4/13/1999 1:09:00 PM
From: Don Lloyd	Respond to of 132070

Nadine - (...For all the bloatware that Microsoft can produce, Bill Gates can't drive a user to upgrade if he spends most of his time on a browser that is clearly bottlenecked by a 56K connection. The machines still get faster, but the user's desperation to own the fastest is gone. And once the mid- to low-range machines become ok for most users, not just the price-constrained, the charm has failed.) I could be wrong, but my perception is that 95% of my time is spent waiting for the source servers to just send the information, not a limitation in modem speed. To the extent that this is true, it would just emphasize your point that consumers have little available improvement that is worth buying. The question is whether notoriously slow sites like Schwab are significantly improved by high speed access, which I have never seen. Regards, Don