Thomas Mueller said:
>Why would consumers want to continue getting the short end of the Windows
stick
>and stay with the DOS-based version? With WinME, MS is proving the
DOS-based
>version is just as much a resource hog as the NT-based version. I don't
like
>the idea of an OS just for consumer use, entertainment, and not for serious
>business. That does not win me.
One never knows what will come from the fertile mind of Microsoft.
Probably, even if a general move is made to NT, we would see a heavy-duty
industrial version with LAN capabilities and such-- and insanely expensive--
and a "light" consumer version lacking certain capabilities and more
reasonably priced. This was precisely what Microsoft was saying, back when
it started telling people that the Win98 would not be continued (before
WinME showed up). The issue would come in about what precisely was lost in
going to the "light" version, and whether you would lose true compatibility
between the two.
I still remember the IBM PC jr., that "home" version of the IBM PC that
didn't manage to be "IBM compatible." If that's what Microsoft has in mind,
I think MOST consumers would like to stick to Win 95/98/ME. At least
there's only 1 version, and it runs all the 95/98/ME software we already
have.
