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

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (56852)	4/21/1999 11:53:00 AM
From: gnuman	Respond to of 132070

MB, re: " I think the key to holding up all tech innovation is Microsoft." I think the other thing to keep in mind is market segments. There are PC's and then there are PC's. When I think about cheap PC's I'm considering more those targeted at the internet. (The fastest growing market). Even Microsoft has targeted this segment with CE, a cheap and soon to be cheaper OS. (Note they are going after China with a $200 set-top reference design). You and I probably wouldn't want one, but the largest untapped segments may. (And I see that Corel plans to introduce a cheap office suite targeted at low-end PC's). Even WebTV has all the attributes of a PC. CPU, OS, memory, hard disk, modem and an infra-red K/B. (Heck, my DIVX player meets the requirements. And it also has a modem). Three to four years is an eternity in this business, but it's fun to speculate. ;-)