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To: TechieGuy-alt who wrote (60640)	10/27/2001 2:33:36 PM
From: Petz	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 275872

TG, yes the lack of business, especially Win2K Athlon PC's, is a big problem for AMD. But the release of XP may help things. Hasn't Windows 2000 become an "orphan" OS with this release? Now, don't take me wrong, I wish it weren't true, but I don't think there will be anything other than Service Packs to update Win2K from now on. Slowly, businesses will start using XP. And that is very available on AMD systems. Petz

To: TechieGuy-alt who wrote (60640)	10/27/2001 5:34:26 PM
From: Gopher Broke	Respond to of 275872

Not even in the consumer lines. Win2K was not even an option that any of the top 5 manufacturers offered for a price. He had to go with an Intel PC. The distinction between business and consumer OS has always been a problem for AMD. Thankfully XP now spans both segments. OK, so there is a special version of XP for businesses, but it is nothing like the separation of WinME and Win2K, where the lack of business OS bundling was blocking AMD sales to small businesses. Thank you Microsoft! EDIT: As far as I am aware XP does indeed replace Win2K. Microsoft wanted Win2K to be the release that unified the two OSes, but they did not have time to sort out all the software incompatibilities. Now DirectX is more of a standard and they have had time to develop pluggable "shims" to resolve some of the problems getting legacy software to run on the NT core. Win2K will live on for a couple of years (and so I would expect to see more service packs) but Microsoft will be pushing hard for the migration to XP to happen ASAP.