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

To: LindyBill who wrote (20690)	4/18/1999 2:14:00 PM
From: RTev	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74651

[to thread] Today's Seattle Times has a story on Win2000 that should encourage anyone worried about the date. Windows 2000: Complexity stymies Microsoft upgrade seattletimes.com It looks like one of the Time's typically good peaks inside the company. Among the important points: According to the story, the W2K team is in "shipping is a feature" mode which makes sure that the product gets out the door on time even if other features have to be sacrificed: Today, Windows 2000 is a different product. The development team is stripping away code, dropping features and, perhaps most important, meeting deadlines. It also deals with the many competitive pressures faced by the product, including Novell's directory, Linux, Sun, Y2K spending, and Microsoft's own reputation for buggy first releases.