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

To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (59923)	7/16/2001 10:11:32 PM
From: Charles Tutt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

So have they discontinued "ME" and W98? Charles Tutt (TM)

To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (59923)	7/16/2001 10:25:34 PM
From: Dave	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

As stated before, the only version of Windows that matters going forward is Windows XP, which is the new "consumer Windows". MSFT never intended to remove DOS from Windows 95 and its successors, preferring to migrate the user base to the NT code base. Windows XP is what accomplishes that goal. Since Windows 95, every consumer operating system that Microsoft has shipped has been The Last One that will be built on DOS, because next time everybody will use NT. It just hasn't happened that way, because it has taken Microsoft many years of hard work to balance the conflicting goals of compatibility and stability. And to be honest, I suppose Microsoft was correct in stating that Windows 95 was the last one that would be built on DOS, because 95 was the last consumer OS that they shipped. Not counting bug fixes, minor updates, and anticompetitive browser bundling, that is. As far as XP being the NT that consumers will finally use, yes I suppose they might, if it is shoved down their throats with new machines, but we'll have to wait to see what happens, because XP doesn't exist yet. It's quite possible that the launch of XP will give birth to a black market for old Windows 98 SE CDs, so people can actually use their peripherals and software with their computers. Dave