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To: QwikSand who wrote (15652)	4/22/1999 10:39:00 PM
From: Rusty Johnson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

<OT> - Microsoft's Mission: Simplify, Simplify Business Week Online Will an easier-to-use operating system win over the holdouts? What's the next big software breakthrough that personal-computer users and PC makers want to see? No, it's not another whizzy feature that only the truly nerdy or the truly young can master. It's something far harder to produce: simplicity. Unless computers become much easier to use, PC makers fear, they won't be able to keep finding new customers--no matter how little they charge for hardware. Even Microsoft Corp. agrees. But can the company that spent the last 15 years larding Windows with scores of esoteric new features create such a thing? It's going to give it a try. As part of a wide-ranging evolutionary plan for Windows (table), the Redmond (Wash.)-based software giant is designing an operating system that pairs the industrial-strength code of Windows NT with a super-easy user interface. Table: Windows Dressing WINDOWS 98 ''SECOND EDITION'' A modest enhancement to Win98, due out this spring, will make it easy to network home computers. WINDOWS 2000 Based on Windows NT, this operating system is due by yearend and will come in two flavors: a heavy-duty version for corporate servers and a client version for corporate workers using PCs. WINDOWS 98 (THIRD EDITION) Second upgrade to Win98 simplifies connection of peripherals and more tightly integrates the Internet. Slated for introduction sometime in 2000. WINDOWS 2000 FOR CONSUMERS A new user interface will hide the complexity of the underlying industrial-strength Windows NT, which will eliminate most common PC crashes. DATA: MICROSOFT CORP. Message 9092984 Looks like "Splintering, Splintering".