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"Last week, I had no doubts that Microsoft easily would manage to get its long-awaited Windows 2000 product out the door before the end of calendar 1999. But now, based on a number of emerging data points, that date's looking more and more wishy-washy. Microsoft did not get Release Candidate 2 of Beta 3 out the door this week, as it originally expected. Now, it will be lucky to do so by Sept... RC3 is now looking like it won't hit testers by October 6, the date Microsoft had been counting on releasing the product to manufacturing. Betanews is predicting the product won't go gold until fall Comdex, i.e., mid-November, at best. More evidence of problems: Microsoft had slated a major invite-only Windows 2000 Marketing Day for its hardware and software partners next week. Now, that event's been pushed off until mid-October... What's going on? Microsoft's mum, but one of its strongest Windows 2000 backers, IBM, isn't. At a two-day press event at its Research Triangle Park facility, IBM ...reiterated the company's commitment to Windows 2000. But... also acknowledged its concerns regarding Windows 2000..."
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