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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SteveC who wrote (96909)	3/5/2000 6:34:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 1577884

Steve, it depends what kind of business. For running Office, a web browser, and email, Win9x is fine, and Win95 OSR2 + IE5 is probably better than 98 from a gunk vs. reliability standpoint. But for that kind of stuff, your basic $500 e-machines box is probably more than adequate, too. For engineering use, I don't think Win9x cuts it, and that's the main business use where the fastest cpu is important. One hopes that most businesses don't buy PCs based on Quake frame rates. My understanding is that as of the W2k launch, Win9x is officially a home OS, while W2k is the official business OS. Well, they'd want to say that anyway, as w2k costs a lot more, but that's their line. At IDF, Pat Gelsinger said (probably to Microsoft's chagrin) that W2K needed an extra 250mhz relative to NT4? Win9x?, which would make it a great match for Athlon, if you could get it. Well, you can, but bundled OEM prices are a lot better than paying Microsoft again, at a considerably higher price than the OEMs can give you, to replace the OEM bundled OS. Cheers, Dan.