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To: EPS who wrote (26586)	4/9/1999 10:11:00 AM
From: PJ Strifas	Respond to of 42771

If we really wanted to be forward thinking and take this article's premise (that consumers want an OS at home that does Games and Entertainment better than Office apps) further...the best alternative is not Linux but BeOS. I've seen the BeOS demonstrated on an INTEL machine and it's very interesting indeed. The one demo I saw was the BeOS running 14 video clips AT THE SAME TIME without any noticeable flicker or performance drop! The speaker said that he's scaled this upwards of 30 simultaneous videos without even so much as a hiccup. Now I'm not saying that this will take off tomorrow but some enterprising multimedia company (SONY?) could take a BeOS, install it on an Intel-based supersystem, match it with a SONY 35" TV, some speakers, an Infrared keyboard/mouse/remote and VOILA! The perfect home entertainment/web center. Now if they can get this BeOS to manage more than one TV setup, this would be really interesting. On the same note, I've always kept an eye on Silicon Graphics, waiting for them to attack the consumer end of their graphics market in much the same way.....still waiting of course :) Just a thought on multimedia, consumers and OS choices.... :) Peter Strifas

To: EPS who wrote (26586)	4/9/1999 10:12:00 AM
From: Paul Fiondella	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42771

What MSFT is saying is they can't hit the consumer with the full Win2000 price As they try to pass on the tremendous costs of development they are incurring with all of the massive bugs. This is just the tip of the iceberg," said Jeffrey Tarter, the editor of Softletter, an industry newsletter based in Watertown, Mass. "The real problem is the more you look at the innards of Windows the more complicated and more flaky it gets. I don't see any way that they can fix the mess they created without going back to the beginning." I'll drink to that.