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

To: RTev who wrote (30602)	10/13/1999 9:22:00 PM
From: RTev	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Final Win2000 beta due in November zdnet.com ...Brian Valentine, vice president of Microsoft's Business and Enterprise Division ... also acknowledged Wednesday that Release Candidate 3 (RC3), the final beta release of the product, won't be out until November. ... "This is still not a date-driven release at Microsoft. We are still confident we will make it this year. But if customers say it's not ready, we'll hold [Windows 2000]," Valentine told the TechNet audience.... Whether it physically delivers the product before the end of the calendar year or early next, Microsoft will face challenges marketing the product due to Year 2000 lockdown situations at a number of major companies, Valentine acknowledged. "I joke and tell [CEO] Bill [Gates] that this is the worst time in the last couple hundred years to ship a new software product," Valentine said. ... As of Wednesday, 87 percent of the top 500 desktop applications are passing Windows 2000 compatibility tests, and 86 percent of the top server applications are doing likewise. Valentine said Microsoft's goal is not to ship the product until 100 percent of the top applications are deemed Windows 2000-compatible.