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To: Bill Jackson who wrote (29945)	3/1/2001 6:06:12 AM
From: fyodor_	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Bill: MSFT still is trying to force feed the industry what it feels is good for it. It seems their only way to shift people is to shift the OEMs to the new OS and let them drag their clients. There is a lot of resistance as many people now migrate their OS to keep their system the same and avoid the death of a million bugs that comes with new MSFT OS. I keep getting small clients who went out and bought win2K and self installed it on their own system. Often they end up crippled and they have no return path except format c:/s IMHO, Win2k is the (almost) perfect successor to Win98. It's generally faster and much, much more stable. Then there is all the nice "cool" stuff... However, Win2k isn't yet ready to replace NT 4. Win2k Service Pack 2 promises to go quite a ways on this, but with Win XP just around the corner, Microsoft seems to be in a dilemma: - Make Win2k better and risk companies not upgrading to Win XP - Screw Win2k and risk no one upgrading to it. They seem to have chosen a path somewhere in the middle... Make Win2k better, but don't fix some of the new features (e.g. MAD) that could help sell XP. -fyo