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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (15747)	12/31/1997 6:37:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 24154

Windows 97, Windows 98, Windows 99? wired.com A little parting shot for the year from the wired weinies, about the OS formerly known as Windows 97 and NT2K, the mother of all bloated middleware OS's. Last week, a spokesperson said that the NT server and workstation OSes will be available in the second half of 1998. Meanwhile, analysts and other industry watchers have been speculating that 1999 is a more realistic time frame. Here's hoping users will still be alive when it ships. "[Windows 98] has few changes in look, feel, and performance warranting two years work, except swelling its post-install size to easily over 150 megs," wrote Wired News reader Matt Frankland. "The Microserfs have too many projects in the works in their plot of world domination. After mushrooming out, they need to reorganize and focus on fewer projects." But what fun would that be? Anyway, old Matt's forgetting about the Roach Motel California of browsers, inextricably intertwined with both products. Doesn't that count for look and feel? Besides, cutting back would interfer with Bill's pursuit of happiness, and that would be unconstitutional. Maybe they could just take a Galtian sabatical, like I've suggested before. Happy New Years, Everbody. Cheers, Dan.