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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jill who wrote (25508)	7/5/1999 8:46:00 PM
From: t2	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74651

MSFT is really going to try to squeeze every last dollar out of Windows in the future. Consumer windows based upon NT in 2001 and another regular Windows upgrade in 2000. I wonder if it has anything to do with possible monopoly status of the current Windows. Introduce some non monopoly product like NT in the consumer market. Would be harder to attack for the government. quote.bloomberg.com Microsoft Preparing 1st Consumer Version of NT, ZDNet Reports Redmond, Washington, July 5 (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp. plans commercial production in April 2001 of the first consumer version of its Windows operating system based on Windows NT, ZDNet reported. Code-named Neptune, the system will be the first for consumers that's based on NT, which is designed for businesses, instead of on Windows. Neptune is tentatively set to go into testing in the third quarter of next year, ZDNet said. Microsoft, the world's biggest software maker, plans to release another upgrade of its Windows 98 system, to be called Consumer Windows in 2000, in time for Christmas next year. (www.zdnet.com)