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To: Scott C. Lemon who wrote (30447)	2/20/2000 2:57:00 AM
From: Rusty Johnson	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 42771

Windows 2000: A Cloudy View By Cintra Scott SmartMoney Interactive Edition smartmoney.com The shorter SI version ... Message 12923295 Happy Windows 2000 Day! By Paul R. La Monica SmartMoney Interactive Edition smartmoney.com But nobody was lining up outside the local CompUSA (CPU) (actually, do people even go to CompUSA for anything anymore?) in order to get their copy at the stroke of midnight. And since I'm not a CIO, CFO, CEO, COO or any other C fill-in-a-letter-of-your-choice O, I really don't care about Windows 2000. If our tech people decide to replace Windows NT 4.0 on our network with Windows 2000, so be it. As long as I don't have to go out and buy it and install it, whatever they do is fine by me. Still, you can't escape the Windows 2000 propaganda machine. As of 2:30 this afternoon, there have been 128 press releases put out today with the words Windows 2000 in them (many of them from companies other than Microsoft). One hundred and twenty-eight! Then there are all the ads in newspapers and on the sides of buses and on billboards. It's overkill. ... I am curious to see if there are any major bugs in Windows 2000. There hasn't been enough press about that yet. But I'm sure you've received emails from friends about some of the funny quirks in Windows 98. In Word 98, for example, if you type in "unable to follow directions," highlight the phrase and then run it through the Thesaurus, the suggested alternative is "unable to have an erection." I kid you not. Best of luck.