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To: Dermot Burke who wrote (15700)	12/30/1997 11:51:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 24154

Microsoft's Product Roadmaps: Plan A & Plan B zdnet.com This is a general piece on release schedules, with emphasis on NT2k, the OS for the next millenium. After the indefinite slip at Comdex, there seem to be sorta firm dates being floated again, but remember, this is Microsoft- courteous, ethical, humorous as always. If Microsoft triumphs in the latest DOJ battle, NT 5.0 will continue to inch painfully along the beta path, with the long-awaited Beta 2 currently slated to hit somewhere between late April and early June. Microsoft officials are still holding to the party line that the final NT 5.0 workstation and server packages should both be done before the end of 1998. Even with luck on Microsoft's side, I wouldn't hold my breath. Well, I'm gonna hold my breath till Dermot spells my name right.:-). The place where the channel could be affected most dramatically if the DOJ has its way, however, is with NT 5.0. (It's not clear whether the court will rule that the DOJ's case applies to NT, as well as Windows, but it's looking like things are going that way.) To decouple IE 4 from NT 5.0 workstation, Microsoft to have to go back to the drawing board. Resulting NT 5.0 delays could make Microsoft's current track record for operating system deliveries look downright timely. Talk about random, this is getting curiouser and curiouser. Why is the mother of all bloated middleware OS's now also inextricably intertwined with the Roach Motel California of browsers? No doubt it's all beyond the comprehension of mere mortals, so I won't think about it anymore. Cheers, Dan.