RE: Windows98 future

[Alan Smith <alans@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim,

At a Microsoft briefing 2 years ago, the MS engineers/marketing people
all said that, "The follow-on release to Windows95 (whatever it would be
called) would be the last release before it was all NT."  And, that this
"in-between" release would be a bit of a hybrid.  Aside from some of the
'background' things that go on in Win98, probably the biggest thing is
the support for very large HDD and all available RAM (not just 32MB).
If you don't need to concern yourself with bigger than 2.1 GB drives or
32+MB of RAM (or want to play a lot of heavy graphics games) then it
probably won't be cost / performance / efficiency justified.


Alan Smith
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        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Jim Hoopes [SMTP:hoopes@san.rr.com]
        Sent:   Saturday, August 22, 1998 1:09 PM
        To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
        Subject:        RE: Windows98  future

        Eric,

        I read a  recent article from PC Week that said:

        "Beta 2 of NT Workstation 5.0, which is meant to replace Windows
95 as a
        business desktop operating system,..."

        The URL for that article is:
        http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/news/0817/18etech.html

        I've heard that informally from Microsoft quite a bit before,
but that's a
        recent published reference to what you were asking about. It
looks like NT
        5.0 is still a ways out though.

        Regards,
        Jim H.

        > -----Original Message-----
        > From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
        > [mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Eric
        > Sent: Friday, August 21, 1998 5:53 PM
        > To: 'midrange-l@midrange.com'
        > Subject: Windows98 future
        >
        >
        > I read somewhere that the next version of Windows 98 will be
        > an NT version.
        >  Can anyone point me to an article that says this.  I'm
        > trying to move our
        > company to Windows NT Workstation instead of Windows 98.
        > Thanks very much
        > in advance.
        >
        > Eric Kempter
        > Director of MIS
        > Commair Mechanical Services
        >
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