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ZDNN: Gates: Win2000 will ship this year

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 26, 1999

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“Or at least the Microsoft boss is ‘pretty sure’ that will be
the case with the long-awaited OS. ‘We are very close to the final
shipment.'”

[Bill Gates: -lt] “…paper is definitely easier to use, it’s
more flexible and you don’t get those funny error messages. Plus,
it has been developed over a long period of time.” [What???
-lt]

[Bill Gates: -lt] “‘It should eliminate the Unix single point of
failure issue,’ he [Gates -lt] said. ‘People are expecting
everything out of this software that they got from mainframes, plus
they want the clustering capability.'”

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