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

To: Bearded One who wrote (23071)	5/21/1999 2:26:00 PM
From: Deliveryman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

I monitor, and support hundreds of Windows 95, 98 and NT machines. I all the years I have been doing this, I have NEVER had a machine down for hours, let alone days due to a OS problem. Hardware problems are a different matter. You said: "When Windows 98 or WinNT screws up, it can be minutes, or hours, or days before you get your system back. "

To: Bearded One who wrote (23071)	5/21/1999 3:36:00 PM
From: Andy Thomas	Respond to of 74651

>> However, we simply don't know if Steve Jobs would have pulled the crap that Gates & Co. pulled, because Jobs and Apple never got the chance. << They blew their chance in about 1990... I could see that Windows may not have been "as good for most people" (I always preferred having access to the command line over the "point and click" of the Mac/Windows), but I could also see that the price point for PCs running Windows was going to eat Apple's lunch, and it did. Apple could have been a major contender, simply through major, early price cuts and licensing their OS to clone makers.... way back then... FWIW Andy