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To: Jordan A. Sheridan who wrote (57740)	4/29/2001 9:15:32 PM
From: Bill Fischofer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Thanks for the confirmation. Glad to hear MSFT is doing it right this time. I'll pass on the preview since I don't have a spare machine. As I mentioned earlier, I'll be looking to get a P4 XP machine this Fall when it becomes available.

To: Jordan A. Sheridan who wrote (57740)	4/30/2001 10:19:04 PM
From: Bill Fischofer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Now its Windows 2002 See news.cnet.com for details. I can't say I'm happy with this development. Calling the same code base Windows XP on the client side and Windows 2002 on the server side is going to cause endless confusion. MSFT will be investing a lot of marketing dollars to build brand image around XP but now that will be diluted by the "2002" moniker which will require its own advertising and promotional effort. The whole point of XP was to send the message that Windows has finally been unified and now the marketing department seems about to undo what the programmers have worked so hard to achieve. I hope MSFT reconsiders this decision before the product ships. Stop with the dates and just use release numbers going forward. It's a tried-and-true scheme which everyone understands.