From: "Geo" 

"Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
news:u44771572gvlsvmuhhfgva6u71pg7slt2s{at}4ax.com...

> I can understand W2K's level of prior version checking, because it is an
> upgrade version.  But I shudder to think what will happen if I cannot
> find that NT3.51 disk.....

Yes but an easy fix to that is to buy one full version of W2K and use that
when you reinstall that machine. Who cares what CD you install from, a
license is a license so as long as you kept the paperwork safe in a folder
you can prove you are legal and damn the stupid software checking.

but your problem is easily solved, I've long forgotton what 2 files the W2K
upgrade version checks for but it's fairly simple to burn a new CD with
just those two files in the correct path, a simple google will probably
turn up the information you need for that.

> Getting back to MSFT's quarterly report...  They missed their revenue
> projection, but hit the consensus estimate for earnings.  I remember
> reading a lot in the trade rags these past few months about the
> cost-cutting measures and the reduction of some employee benefits that
> Microsoft was putting in place.  So the revenue miss was known to Bill &
> Co. for a while.

The current environment is a bit tougher on umm... creative accounting, so
the tricks they used to use to hide income until it's needed may not all be
possible in todays accounting world. I think it likely that this is part of
the reason for the current results, or more precisely this is the reason we
have not seen them miss before.


> ~you can't keep meeting earnings estimates forever by cutting
> costs.  Eventually you have to grow the top line.~

Exactly right, and to do that you have to talk to your customers and give
them what THEY want. Microsoft hasn't been doing that for quite a while now
and I'm not sure if the folks working at MS today even know how. There are
far too many people in that company today that thing customers are all a
bunch of thieves and that the only way to deal with them is to use a
hammer. That ain't going to get MS anything but hurt.

Geo.

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