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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (20755)	8/26/1998 6:53:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 24154

NT 5.0: It's a floor wax -- no, dessert topping zdnet.com Here's esteemed ilk sister Mary Jo Foley, trying to keep track of the company line on NT2K, the OS for the next millennium. It's been getting a lot of press this week, as everyone probably noticed. NT2K Beta II, the Enterprise Beta, seems to have gone out with a whimper. During the past few months, Microsoft has spun wildly trying to position NT 5.0 in a way that would shut down critics, while simultaneously excite customers. That's what Microsoft does best. Spin wildly. And innovatively, of course. At last week's NT 5.0 reviewers workshop in Seattle, Microsoft added a new chapter to its NT 5.0 positioning story. Microsoft officials told the 200 press members and analysts in attendance that NT 5.0 is not a monolith that Microsoft has designed it from the get-go to be an incrementally upgradeable platform. Right, it's so modular, it's integrated! Or something like that. Microsoft has more than 5,000 people working on the 30 million-plus lines of code that comprise NT 5.0. At this point in the product life cycle, the company is building, testing and self-hosting the product on a daily basis. NT 5.0 is "the most ambitious and furthest reaching operating system we've done", according to Windows Division Vice President Moshe Dunie. Wow, more ambitious that Windows98, the OS that was supposed to suck less? I'm impressed. The line count was up to 35million in some other recent story, the head count was supposed to be 1k coders, 1k testers 6 months back. Bill apparently never read "The Mythical Man Month", or maybe that one was for mere mortals. I used to handicap NT2K vs. mysterious Merced, but now there's some question as to if, rather than when, the pair will ship. Be afraid, be very afraid, the friends of Bill tell us. I would be, too, if I were a sailor on the Yorktown. Cheers, Dan.