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To: calgal who wrote (151488)	1/17/2000 12:31:00 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

Leigh - I read the press too - that's why I was surprised when I looked at the MSFT web site and saw no workstations or notebooks certified. Also, IBM NEC and CPQ have a link to their own Win2K "Readiness" programs right on the MSFT web page - DELL has only the listing of their 3 base desktop products. This is surprisingly weak given that the product launch is next week. Take a look at microsoft.com to see what I mean... The IBM site pc.ibm.com lists all of the reasons why a commercial customer would buy Win2K on IBM. The CPQ site at compaq.com is even more comprehensive. These vendors obviously want to make a big splash with Win2K... the impression I get from DELL (including the material on the DELL web site) is "sure, we'll have Win2k on a few systems, along with all of our other great stuff...". This is especially surprising to me since MSD is a keynote speaker at the launch event along with Gates and Michael Capellas. There must be something else in the works that I'm not seeing. Still, corporate customers don't make decisions in a day and if I was a buyer looking at DELL vs. the competition, the impression I get is that DELL doesn't care much about Win2K.