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To: Stormweaver who wrote (21868)	4/30/1999 6:40:00 AM
From: dumbmoney	Read Replies (1) of 74651

Only one more card to look at and that's the migration to Windows 2000. Is 2000 backward compatible with 32bit win98/NT apps ... and how about 16 bit DOS apps ? Will it be a painful migration ? Win2000 will be huge. NT4 has already achieved quite a bit of mainstream acceptance, and Win2000 will increase that. The real growth area isn't servers, although that's important - the revenue potential is that a significant fraction of Win9x users and new users will select Win2000. Since Win2000 is more expensive than Win9x, this is basically a stealth OS price increase. NT4 will linger for a little while after NT5. NT3.5 lingered for a while after 4.0 came out, and since NT4 has had a long life it will linger longer, in corporate settings. Consumers will be very eager to upgrade because of the various features (full DirectX support, USB, etc) that put it on par feature-wise with Win98.

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