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To: Exacctnt who wrote (11841)	10/27/1998 1:02:00 PM
From: ToySoldier	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Nice picture Robert, but no one invests into history! People invest into the future. Your picture of the companies' 8 year history is pretty but nothing surprising. Give me a picture that shows these companies over the next 1-2 years and I will be impressed. Toy

To: Exacctnt who wrote (11841)	10/27/1998 1:12:00 PM
From: ToySoldier	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Microsoft beats the drum for NT 5.0 By Michael Moeller and Scott Berinato, PC Week Online and Mary Jo Foley, Sm@rt Reseller October 16, 1998 4:40 PM ET DENVER -- Microsoft Corp. beat the Windows NT 5.0 drum hard this week, but the noise fell on deaf ears, as many potential users seemed to be in no hurry to deploy the massive upgrade. zdnet.com "The only thing some of these vendors have running on NT 5.0 are their PowerPoint slide presentations," said one software vendor who requested anonymity. "But if you could claim to have anything ready for NT 5.0, Microsoft gave you a $1,500 kickback on your booth cost if you displayed the [NT 5.0] sign." .... But despite Microsoft's best efforts, some attendees maintained they won't deploy NT 5.0 for at least 18 months after its release. "It's interesting technology, but from my standpoint in my industry, in reality users won't accept it for a few years," said David Wesselmann, an NT developer at First American Corp., in Anaheim, Calif. "Nothing will be written to NT 5.0 for a while. In my case, it will be a couple of years after its release. Most companies will want to be finished with Y2K before they think about NT 5.0." As I have always been saying, NT 5 will not be accepted by the real world until well into 2000 and likely 2001. Lots of time for competition to take advantage of MSFT's lag in momentum. Toy