You torture me with this, Q. :)
No! Stop! Stop! Too sexy! Too sexy!
I just think they're going to sell a sh*tload of W2K.
There are 3 factors working against them, with which we are all droningly familiar: application paradigm shift (i.e., Sun's vision), the DOJ, and Linux incursion, in decreasing order of importance. In calendar 2000, while all of those things will continue to gain momentum, I don't think any of them, or indeed all of them combined, will outweigh the largest pent-up demand of them all: the need for a desktop operating system that runs Win32 applications, supports current technology (like, duh, power management and USB), and actually works. Forget servers; if W2K is such a beast on the desktop, M$FT will get its outrageous price tag paid to them tens or hundreds of millions of times.
This isn't a story of Itanic or 8-way thises and thats or commodity supercomputers or any of the other bogus fantasies purveyed by the various M$FT fanatics. It's simply a story of people not being tired of the applications they use every day, but being plenty tired of the POS operating systems they run on.
If that ends your torture, well and good. If not, so much the better <g>.
--QS |
