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

To: cheryl williamson who wrote (20006)	4/7/1999 7:00:00 PM
From: Sir Francis Drake	Respond to of 74651

Wonder if this will affect at all tomorrow's MSFT price... If this has been discussed earlier, I apologize. nytimes.com <<Microsoft in 2000 will release another consumer version of Windows built on the Windows 98 kernel, company president Steve Ballmer said Wednesday. The company had previously said the Win 2000 consumer edition would be built on the Win 2000, formerly known as Win NT 5.0, technology. An upgrade toWin 98, called Win 98 Second Edition, is already planned for release this fall. "We will get there eventually on Windows 2000," Ballmer told the large audience at the WinHEC conference. His keynote was laced with the familiar themes of ease of use, scalability, and reliability, but it contained several surprises and new initiatives. Ballmer introduced a new Windows Server Appliance, designed to enable small offices and homes to easily set up small networks "without the involvement of some value-added reseller or whatever," he said. "This is going to be done in minutes." In a demonstration, the Windows Server Appliance, a device with no monitor, was able to handle simple installation for file, print, shared Internet access, and storage capability on the server. Licensing would be simple because it does not scale like NT and would not be complicated like Enterprise Agreements, he said. On the scalability theme, Microsoft demonstrated for the first time publicly Win 2000 running on a 64-bit Intel processor. The vendor concurrently is building 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Win 2000. Ballmer called the 32-bit version an intermediate version that will ship with Win 2000 in the fourth quarter. A 64-bit version, capable of handling 8 terabytes of memory, will ship sometime after that, he said. A central theme of the hardware-oriented conference is home networking and connectivity, and Ballmer leveraged that theme to push for a "rebirth of the PC vision." He called for the notion of a PC on every desktop to a world where computers are connected to "anybody, anytime, any device in a connected fashion." "We must extend the vision," he said. "We can't let the PC be static. Our industry needs to encompass everything from the personal assistant to the superserver." Ballmer also pitched a new Universal Plug-and-Play initiative, involving about 50 vendors. The group will work on setting standards, among other things. "This [initiative] lets devices -- whether or not they are PCs -- talk to each other," Ballmer said.>> Also: nytimes.com