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To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (57758)	5/1/2001 1:16:04 PM
From: David Howe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Bill, I'm actually pleased with this development. Win 2000 for the office Win Me for the home user This transitions very nicely to the following Win 2002 for the office Win XP for the home user It's a natural. There would have been too much confusion if Win XP was the successor to both the corporate and home user versions of Windows. MSFT is making the right decision once again. IMO, Dave

To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (57758)	5/1/2001 3:27:03 PM
From: Dave	Respond to of 74651

Now its Windows 2002 [...] I can't say I'm happy with this development. I'm neither happy nor sad. Microsoft ship dates don't mean anything and they never have. They announce bogus ship dates to use as vaporous weapons against competitors. In this case, you'll recall that XP's Luna interface was announced almost simultanously with Apple's release of MacOS X's Aqua interface. Coincidence? Hardly. An August ship date was probably just manufactured because OS X is going to start shipping with new Macintoshes in August. More importantly, remember that a "combined code base" for MSFT's consumer and business OSes has been about a year away for many years now. Its ship date HAS to slip, or it would cease to be a year away. Dave