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To: d[-_-]b who wrote (110440)	5/11/2000 4:13:00 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574327

Eric, Just going by W2K 32 schedule, the first beta was out I think in 1998, the public betas started with Beta 3 which was released in May or June of 1999, with the OS finally being released in February 2000. The Datacenter edition is not out yet and is going to be late. My guess is that the 64bit edition will in fact be based on the DataCenter edition. Joe

To: d[-_-]b who wrote (110440)	5/11/2000 4:24:00 PM
From: Gopher Broke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574327

Eric, I has taken Microsoft years to get Win2K from Beta to released product strength. OK so the Itanium OS does not need to be so feature rich, but it does need to be product strength. Itanium flops for good if the OS crashes repeatedly. And actually I will not blame Microsoft for Itanium software instability, because Intel bears the responsibility for the complexity of the execution environment.