This won't be like WIN95

And those that have hung in there with their Microsoft stock have received some nice appreciation.

50X appreciation since 1995. Not bad for a company that has been cursed and screamed at by it's users for 20 years, compared to Apple which is up 300X over the same time period and has had fans and idolizers. One might have thought it would be a bigger difference given the hype one has and the other doesn't.

GE, on the other hand, despite all their efforts and making the turbines that generate 2/3rds of the world's electricity and fly a similar percentage of the worlds airliners has appreciated by about 30% over the same period. Not 30X, but just 30%. Ouch--no love for big power tech.

Another fun game is to note that anyone who bought a tesla before 2014, had they put that ~$100K into Tesla stock instead of the Tesla car, would have $10M now, instead of an old used Tesla. But you can't look back in time and kick yourself since there are similar deals to buy right now for the next 10 year window, which unfortunately are impossible to predict today.