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To: Process Boy who wrote (63878)	6/30/1999 10:11:00 PM
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RDM - RE: Merced Samples "'Samples of the Merced chip will be available within two months', Barrett said." Nothing different from what CRB said in April. PB cbs.marketwatch.com ====================================================================== 'Wintel' looks to drum up support Microsoft and Intel market hard ahead of major releases By Brenon Daly, CBS MarketWatch Last Update: 5:27 PM ET Jun 30, 1999 Software Report BURLINGAME, Calif. (CBS.MW) -- Still several months away from major product releases, both Microsoft and Intel on Wednesday nonetheless trumpeted their dominate position in powering the computers that run most businesses. "PCs are connecting up and delivering more value than ever," Microsoft (MSFT: news, msgs) Chief Executive Bill Gates said during a keynote at the two-day Workstation Leadership Forum (WLF) on Wednesday. That's a key to Microsoft, which supplies the software that powers about eight of every 10 personal computers. It's trying to lock up the software that runs larger business computers, often known as "workstations." Already, Microsoft reports that its big business software -- Windows NT -- has 33 million copies installed on machines. Last year, shipments of workstations running Windows NT increased 41 percent compared to a 6 percent decline for workstations running the rival language, Unix, according to International Data Corp. Microsoft is set to release Windows 2000, which was originally known as Windows NT 5.0, later this year. Intel (INTC: news, msgs) is also warming up for a major release in the coming months. The chip-making giant is scheduled to put out its Merced chip in the middle of next year. During a presentation at the WLF, Intel Chief Executive Craig Barrett said workstation shipments running on Intel processors will increase at least 20 percent in the coming four years. Samples of the Merced chip will be available within two months, Barrett said. The two companies are so closely tied that they are often referred to as the "Wintel" duopoly. The pair has dominated the PC revolution, but the pairing has shown signs of fraying as the two companies face new threats from the Internet. More and more companies are using handheld devices in place of PCs, and employees are generally less tied to desktop computers. Additionally, Microsoft is facing a new threat from software from Linux and Sun Microsystems (SUNW: news, msgs). At the conference, Gates said he's "not seeing many people moving to Linux." Shares of Microsoft rose 2 3/16 to 90 3/16, ahead of a planned conference call to discuss an accounting issue. Intel stock rose 1/4 to 59 1/2