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To: High-Tech East who wrote (26358)	1/17/2000 7:41:00 PM
From: QwikSand	of 64865

Ken: Thanks for posting that article. What a puff piece. They sent Cindy Crawford up to somebody's room for a night to get that butt-smooch about their "nifty new" trailing-edge 32-bit operating system. W2K is to NT 4 as Win98 was to Win95: a bug fix release (with 400,000 new bugs) that a monopoly can get away with charging for. They'll sell a lot of it on the desktop because box builders will bundle it and it's the safe play for corporate IT, as one analyst mentions in the article. Once again, mostly a matter of lack-of-choice. I predict there will be server horror stories within a month after they start shipping the Data Center version. 32 processors? Forget a synthetic benchmark and a BS press release about Tpmc's. Let's wait for the first PR release about a 32-way Pentium Xeon machine running somebody's high-volume transaction processor reliably. And I mean a real 32-way SMP, not one of those Unisys cluster-in-a-box global warming machines. We'll wait for a long, Long, LONG time. --QS

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