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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (16438)	1/20/1998 2:50:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Microsoft To Mount 64-Bit NT Offensive zdnet.com While we wait for the vapors to clear on the "Active Directory" thing, which is sufficently threatened by Novell to require banishment of NDS from NT by decree, another fog bank rolls in. As the release date of Windows NT 5.0 remains uncertain, Microsoft Corp. is evangelizing the operating system's 64-bit successor. Microsoft has committed to providing an early developers release of 64-bit NT before the end of the year, even as the company struggles to get the second beta of NT 5.0 out the door. It is also questionable whether Microsoft can provide a feature-complete version of Beta 2 by April as targeted. If it cannot, testers and sources said, the final version of NT 5.0 could be pushed into 1999, considering Microsoft has vowed to ship a third beta before posting the final release. As a result, widespread corporate rollouts of the operating system may not happen until 2000. NT2K, the OS for the Next Millenium! Sorry, I can't read a story about this without going into geek black humor mode. It gets surreal after a while. However, officials say final delivery of the 64-bit operating system will be timed to coincide with the first computers running Intel Corp.'s forthcoming 64-bit processor (code-named Merced). This means NT 5.0 and 64-bit NT could be delivered less than a year apart. Merced is due in 1999. By current schedules. The race is on! Which will be first, mysterious Merced, or NT2K? I think that that "less than a year" may go negative myself, but I wouldn't put a bet down. Intel does have a better track record though, also this endearing (to me anyway) habit of this "Intel does not comment on unannouced products" policy, as opposed to Microsoft evangelizing for NT6 before they will give any kind of ship date for NT5. Some developers said their main concern is getting the first real beta of NT 5.0. Officials last week seemed to backtrack on the promise to deliver a feature-complete Beta 2 of NT 5.0, and declined to commit on specific features. Microsoft Product Manager [aka marketing peer] Jeff Price said he could not say whether IntelliMirror would make it into Beta 2, since all features need to be tested. "However, the current plan is to have the IntelliMirror functionality in Beta 2," he said. Price also could not say how and when Microsoft would deliver full VLM (very large memory) support in NT 5.0. Can't say when, but you all better watch out. It'll rule the world! Cheers, Dan.