“Microsoft Corp. is ‘pretty sure’ that Windows 2000 will ship by
the end of the year, although delivering a top-quality product is
the main concern and will dictate when the operating system is
released, Bill Gates, the company’s chairman and chief executive
officer, said today.”
” ‘With quality as the top goal,’ delivering Windows 2000 by
year’s end depends on the feedback Microsoft gets from customers
currently testing the software, Gates said.
‘We are very close to final shipping,’ he added. Scalability,
and in particular the ability to link groups of servers together in
a network, was at the top of Microsoft’s list of objectives in
designing the operating system, he said.”