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

To: alydar who wrote (47926)	7/18/2000 10:49:28 AM
From: mozek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

O.T: I believe that Win2000 is a brand new operating system Strange, On one hand, you choose to disbelieve Microsoft's marketing. On the other, you choose to believe their brand position so completely that you ignore the facts. The only consistency seems to be that whatever you consider the most negative for Microsoft, you choose to believe. Good luck, Mike

To: alydar who wrote (47926)	7/18/2000 11:03:22 AM
From: sandeep	Respond to of 74651

O.T.: Blisenko, you must get your information straight if you want to be in the investing game. Win2000 is not a brand new operating system. It is an upgrade from NT4. It may have a lot of new code (such as the shell, Directory Services, compatibility fixes etc), but it is not a brand new Operating system. The main problem with Win2K is that it is a corporate demand driven product. Such products always launch slowly. In the case of Win3.1 and Win95, it was the consumer who gobbled it first and got the IT managers to install it in the corporations out of their own enthusiasm. Since the grass-roots support is lacking for win2k in the similar form, its adoption is left to the hands of IT managers which is a slower process and requires a lot of effort on Microsoft's part to sell the product to these guys (something they didn;t have to do in the past that much). IMHO, of course.

To: alydar who wrote (47926)	7/18/2000 3:42:52 PM
From: Andy Thomas	Respond to of 74651

--I believe that Win2000 is a brand new operating system and is not an upgrade to NT4 or a rebranding of NT4. -- well your belief is mistaken. it's closer to 'nt5' and not a 'ground-up, completely re-coded os.' andy

To: alydar who wrote (47926)	7/18/2000 6:03:25 PM
From: rudedog	Respond to of 74651

Bob - for most of its development life, the OS now known as Windows2000 was NT5. I was in the beta program and the first 2 releases were labeled NT5. The name change was late in the game. Likewise the notion that this was a ground up rewrite is mistaken. You only have to look at the distribution to see the NT4 base. Sure, a lot of the code was touched, one way or another - the same was true going from NT 3.51 to NT4.