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To: JDN who wrote (27704)	2/14/2000 11:22:00 AM
From: rudedog	of 64865

JDN - I scanned the article - I think they are mostly talking about exceptions... There is no question that Win2K is targeted at commercial applications and business users, and is not intended for home users. MSFT has had replacement of the DOS based Win9X codeline with NT as a general goal since at least 1994, but it's a hard problem since there are millions of happy users of game programs and other consumer stuff. QS and I were talking a little about the file system, just as an example. The FAT file system allows faster transfers to and from disk than NTFS - of course, it also sometimes blows up in an ugly way, which won't happen with NTFS... I have used USB still and video cameras, scanners and printers with Win2K without problems but I am not a heavy user of that kind of stuff so there may be constraints I am not aware of. My sense is that Win2K will do a good job supporting the kinds of things that would be useful in a commercial environment, and will allow addition of such products more easily than current NT4 desktops (which don't hardly support that kind of stuff) or Win9X desktops (which support all kinds of stuff but are not too reliable and are a security and maintenance headache). I think they hit the commercial desktop requirements pretty well, and the product should be a big help to IT managers who are unhappy with the cost and difficulty of supporting Win9X desktops but need more functionality than they could get from NT4 on the desktop. Of course, that is a segment that MSFT currently owns pretty completely, and is also the area where they expect the best early adoption.

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