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To: ToySoldier who wrote (8806)	7/2/1998 10:18:00 AM
From: rudedog	of 74651

Toy - The core work for what is now NT5 was begun just after the launch of NT3.5 (daytona). The work for 3.51 (the stability release for daytona) was also well underway before 3.5 was launched. NT4 was originally called the 'shell release' since the original goal was to get the user interface between NT and chicago (Win95) in synch. As NT4 work progressed, and as it became obvious that Win95 had deviated substantially from the Win32 APIs in some of its code (to preserve backward compatibility). the NT4 codeline took on a lot of additional functionality, and the work that eventually will become NT5 was adjusted. Are you a professional software developer? Do you know the intended market coverage for NT5, NT5.1 etc? Do you understand that released products are about a year after code freeze? If MSFT wants to bring out a 'stability release' for NT5 quickly, they need to have the work done for that release well before the product release for NT5. This does not mean that NT5 is junk, it means that some corner case fixes (and some stuff that will inevitably be missed in the first release) will have a vehicle already on the launch pad for quick entry into the market, without any unnecessary delay to the NT5 release which will provide significant benefits to more than 80% of current NT users. If your customers need features or capability that are not in the first release, they may be well advised to wait for the point release. If they can derive significant business benefit from NT5, they may want to suffer a little pain to get those benefits. Your post does not reveal much understanding of how the industry works, which is driven by where the money is. From a revenue standpoint, 'the enemy of the good is the better'. As an investor, I am more concerned with whether MSFT makes the best decisions to increase shareholder value.

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