On 30 Apr 98, at 15:09, Kirk Rafferty wrote:
> But what do you do if you're Microsoft? The first thing that comes to my
> mind is to drastically lower prices on NT server. In fact it's not out of
> the realm of possibility that eventually NT workstation would be free.
> That would be enough to counter much of the Linux desktop threat.
Free ? These folks got many people to buy MS BOB. <g>
They won't give away the OS.
(btw they admit in a recent MIND issue (Microsoft Interactive Developer)
that the BOB "technology" was used for the Office 97 Assistants).
With the common WDM driver model in win98 and NT5 they are well
on the way to eventually killing win9x and having NT in common use.
They do need to lower the price though.
DirectX 6 will be out in two months and may very well cause many folks
to abandon 9x once their game and multimedia titles work on NT.
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