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

To: cheryl williamson who wrote (45647)	5/30/2000 2:59:00 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74651

Cheryl - right, that was my point. No question that stuff was pretty weak. It never changed in focus from the original single-tasking "own the machine" model. All of the Brad Silverberg fans seem to have forgotten that part of his charter was to actually change the base OS to allow it to converge with NT. He got about 1/3 of the way and gave up. The NT people called Win95 "DOS with a pretty face" and that seems accurate. While we can't ignore the requirement for backward compatibility and support for the Legacy DOS base in both hardware and software, Windows9X is still an inappropriate model for any serious work, even corporate productivity desktops. The security model, the file system, the memory management... To give credit where credit is due, this has been well recognized within MSFT for more than 5 years. I think they would do anything to get users to the NT base. But like you say, that won't make hundreds of millions of Win9X desktops go away.