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PC Week: Win 2000 beta dogged by application incompatibilities

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 8, 1999

Thanks to Rich for
this link.

“Incompatibility with existing applications is emerging as the
latest problem to plague Microsoft Corp.’s development of Windows
2000”

“Only about 60 percent of Windows NT applications can run on the
current Windows 2000 beta, sources close to Microsoft said.”

“‘Four out of 10 [running] applications is consistent with what
I was getting,’ said one RC0 tester and custom software developer
who requested anonymity and who took his Windows 2000 server down
because it was too unstable.”

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Web Webster

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