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To: Cirruslvr who wrote (28880)2/18/2001 4:37:31 PM
From: Joe NYCRespond to of 275872
 
Cirrus,

I think MSFT may be adding some consumer friendly features to XP to lure in users for 9x/Me line, to finally retire that line. Overall, the jumps from to NT 4.0 and 5.0 (Win 2000) was fairly major, Win 2000 to XP minor, Xp to BlackComb again fairly major. That's at least my understanding. I have not loaded XP beta.

Joe



To: Cirruslvr who wrote (28880)2/18/2001 9:17:56 PM
From: muzosiRespond to of 275872
 
whistler is not a complete new OS. It is just an upgrade to win2k. Basically there is no upgrade to win9x/me OS which was a 16/32 mixed OS. MSFT thinks, I guess, that enough time has passed so there are not enough apps which won't run on NT code base. Win2k (which was NT 5 during beta) is based on NT code base. So is whistler. Whistler is NT 5.1 or 5.5.

Muzo


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