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To: gnuman who wrote (47240)	1/25/1999 12:49:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570974

Gene, No need to answer since MSFT won't do it. Can't see them forfeiting the 100's of millions of legacy PC's. Good point. Wouldn't you love to be a fly on the wall over at the Intel or AMD executive offices today? Scumbria

To: gnuman who wrote (47240)	1/25/1999 1:22:00 PM
From: Gary Ng	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570974

Gene, Re: No need to answer since MSFT won't do it. Are you sure? Have you tried Office 2000 beta ? Microsoft is moving in this direction and they would love to have this feature. On the other hand, there is many other ways to accomplish this today. So this CPU ID would be a helpful alternative for developers to utilize but I would agree with you that it would never be a 'you must have it' requirement(at least within the coming 5 years). FYI, there is a software equivalent of this in Windows NT today(which I believe would be in Windows 2000 too). Gary