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What's Microsoft's Plan For Windows?
by Dave Murphy
ISSN 1535-3613

Dave Murphy, DGL President & ITrain founder Microsoft President Steve Ballmer shocked the audience Wednesday at the WinHEC trade show in Los Angeles by suggesting that Microsoft may pursue an open-source route to further development of the Windows operating system. Open Source is the cooperative development effort that's generally open for public review, it's the way Linux is developed.

But first, Ballmer rocked the room by confirming Windows 2000 will be delayed and an interim upgrade to Windows 98 will be forthcoming. Microsoft's plan was to make the Windows NT – now called Windows 2000 – the basis of its consumer systems following the current releases of Win98 and WinNT4.

Microsoft's change of plans is in response to consumers' demands that Windows continue to offer support for legacy applications and games. Win2000 will not support older-style DOS-based programs and many 16-bit programs originally written for Win3.1.

However, Microsoft itself is moving forward into the software future. Tomorrow, the entire campus at Redmond will upgrade to the beta version of Win2000. A total of 9,000 users and 25,000 computers.

I'll keep my eyes open for more news about the potential open-source issue for Windows. When I get something interesting, you'll be the first to know.

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