ZD AnchorDesk: Consumer NT? Here's Why It Will Never Happen | Linux Today

ZD AnchorDesk: Consumer NT? Here’s Why It Will Never Happen

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 4, 1999

Thanks to Jeff
Dykshorn
for this link.

“Consumer NT has been postponed at least four years.”

“NT has instead ballooned into the biggest, fattest, most
bloated software in history.”

“By the time Microsoft finally finishes Consumer NT, the world
will have moved on.”

Also interesting is the poll at the bottom of this story:

“Four years from now, what will be Microsoft’s main consumer
operating system?”

One of the choices is:

“Who cares? We’ll all be using Linux!”

Complete
Story

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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