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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: t2 who wrote (13168)	12/12/1998 7:01:00 PM
From: rudedog	Respond to of 74651

tech - Win98 will be replaced by a version of NT5 (Win2K) currently known as 'janus'. There will be at least 2 flavors of this, possibly 3, in the desktop space. One will be a smaller, faster, more capable consumer OS which will appear to be a logical next step for Win98 users, but will 'suck less' in Dan's terminology. It will cost about the same as Win98, maybe a little less. There will be a 'professional' version designed for corporate desktops, to replace the current NT4 workstation product. And there may be an upscale workstation product featuring some clustering and workstation farm capability, as well as support for high performance workstation hardware. This is in addition to at least 3 flavors of server OS, NT64, a revamped small business server, and possibly a separate terminal server product. And let's not forget embedded NT. All built from one base kernel, but not the 50M lines of code that people keep harping on - the base codeline is about 10M lines, according to several MSFT folks in the trenches.