Microsoft backtracks on ZAW for Windows 98 zdnet.com
Arrives Late! Less Features! Sounds like Windows Lite!
"It's things like this that convince me I can't trust my whole enterprise to Microsoft," said Scott Turvey, vice president of technical services at Nicholas Applegate Capital Management Inc., in Irvine, Calif. "Anyone caught off guard by this is naive."
As is anyone who pays any attention to the Microsoft Java line, except for entertainment on the business is war front, but that's another story. Of course, Zero Admin and TCO was last fall's problem, now that it's been effectively vaporized Microsoft can stick to the more important business of killing Netscape and getting that all important monopolistic death grip on the internet with browser/OS integration.
"I cannot bet my business on Microsoft's plans because they've done a bad job communicating the real deal to major accounts," said a Windows beta tester and chief technical officer at a large Southwest organization.
But we hear here, often, that anybody who doesn't switch to NT now is dead meat. Sounds like Hobson's choice to me.
For many buyers, delays and confusion over Windows positioning means a stagnation in implementation of new technologies. "For us, this means we won't move forward quickly because we don't know where things are going," said Charles Urban, program analyst at the Social Security Administration, in Baltimore.
Me, I'm mostly waiting for Friday to see how things are going on that other front in the war on the internet. Cheap entertainment, that, better that the O.J. trial for techno-political geeks like me.
Cheers, Dan. |
