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Let's hear it for Microsoft ... instead of finally burying the remains of
DOS/16bitWindows aka Win95/98 as originally announced, they will continue to
expand the house of cars .... imagine the stability of WinXX with a fresh
layer of 64 bit code on top of the 32 bit code on top of the 16 bit code
remnants on top of the DOS remnants.
Earl
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Cheatham <nchrisc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thursday, April 08, 1999 12:53 PM
Subject: msft stumble???
>FYI...
>
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>Microsoft plans new version of Windows 98
>By Sharon Gaudin
>
>
>LOS ANGELES -- Windows 98 won't be the last desktop operating system of its
>type to come out of Microsoft Corp., according to the company's president,
>Steve Ballmer.
>
>
>Contrary to about a year's worth of statements about its future plans,
>Microsoft will ship an upgraded version of Windows 98 next year after all,
>Ballmer said in his keynote address to thousands of hardware vendors and
>analysts at the company's annual Windows Hardware Engineering Conference
>(WinHEC) here. The upgrade will be based on the Windows 9x kernel and will
>be focused on the consumer but available to corporate buyers as well.
>
>
>Microsoft has long said that Windows 98 would be the last version with that
>code base because the company would be focusing its engineering and
>marketing attention on Windows NT and the NT kernel. Microsoft's upcoming
>Windows 2000 operating system, which is based on the NT kernel, was
supposed
>to serve as the platform for the enterprise server, the corporate desktop
>and the consumer desktop.
>
>
>That notion is at least partly out the window now.
>
>
>``We have said that Windows 2000 will be the new desktop and that we were
>focusing on NT,'' Ballmer said. ``It had been our target to get there in
>2000. The right approach is to get a consumer version of Windows 98 out
next
>year.''
>
>
>Ballmer said the upgraded operating system will be designed to better
handle
>digital media, support Universal Plug and Play and `work out of the box.'
>
>
>He said the Windows 2000 code base will permeate the Windows platform
``post
>year 2000.''
>
>
>In other WinHEC news:
>
>
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>Ballmer talked at length about ``reinventing the PC,'' calling for hardware
>vendors to help Microsoft make the PC less error prone, less difficult to
>use and more exciting. He said Microsoft is working with IBM,
>Hewlett-Packard Co., Dell Computer Corp., Compaq Computer Corp., Micron
>Electronics Inc. and Gateway to make that happen.
>
>
>A 64-bit version of Windows 2000 isn't far down the road, according to
>Ballmer, who said the company is working on a 64-bit version today,
>simultaneously with efforts to get the 32-bit version of Windows 2000 out
>the door. He said 64-bit Windows 2000 will be the next major upgrade. The
>32-bit version, which has been on the drawing board for years, has an
>internal Microsoft target date of October.
>
>
>Microsoft announced today that it plans to ship a Windows Server appliance
>in the second half of this year. The appliance, geared toward small
>businesses and consumers, was designed to handle share file, print and
>Internet capabilities.
>
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