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To: Pierre-X who wrote (1997)	1/3/1998 12:26:00 AM
From: Bert Kuo	Respond to of 9256

Re: Whether Win98 & NT5 will stimulate a major upgrade cycle There definitely will be a major upgrade cycle. Microsoft will make sure of that. They will do it in the same way they make you upgrade everything else. They will do it in little bits. Maybe they will stop making new versions of DirectX for Win95. There go all the gamers. Then they may announce that Office98 or VB6.0 or IE 5 or ActiveX 3.x (or whatever newer version) will only work on win98, and so on... I don't know if it will necessarily cause a hardware upgrade cycle but the OS upgrade cycle will happen whether anyone likes it or not. =-(

To: Pierre-X who wrote (1997)	1/4/1998 12:42:00 PM
From: Z Analyzer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9256

<<it remains to be seen if the two OS rollouts later this year -- Win98 in the June quarter and NT 5.0 in late 98 -- will be compelling enough to stimulate a major upgrade cycle.>> I personally find the ability of Win 98 to display on two monitors at once exciting. If I understand correctly, I will be able to have a spreadsheet open on one and a browser or real time quotes displayed on the other. Sounds like another reason to opt for more than the basic power of a $1000 PC.