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To: johnd who wrote (6382)	5/1/1998 2:21:00 PM
From: Bearded One	Read Replies (2) of 74651

Windows NT 5 being delayed because of Windows 98 legal problems is nonsense put out by Microsoft to cover their butts about Windows NT 5. Windows NT 5 will not be sold in any usable form before 2000, and possibly later. If they do come out with something before 2000, it will be the equivalent of a minor upgrade to NT 4 with a name change. Sorry, but don't rely on NT 5 to boost Microsoft revenues for another 3 years at least. And good luck if they don't make the 'Merced' deadline. Why? It's too damn big. It's twice as many lines of code as Windows NT 4.0! 30 million lines of code to NT 4.0's 16! Windows NT 4.0 took 2 service packs to get it working at all stable, and that was just NT 3.5 with a new interface. Nobody has EVER written a software system as large as NT 5.0 is supposed to be. Think about that before you rely on it. Meanwhile, Novell is selling lots of their directory service products.

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