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The sign dudes and dudettes are goona get a dose.
Win2K Hits Retirement ... Is It Too Soon? By the time Microsoft put Windows NT 4.0 out to pasture, few people would have argued that the OS was more than a little long in the tooth, thanks to the years-long development time of its successor, Windows 2000. But in April 2003, Microsoft will stop offering Win2K to PC makers for inclusion on new systems, effectively ending the product's life 3 years after the company first introduced the OS. In the consumer market, a 3-year OS lifecycle is pretty good, but for the business markets that Win2K targets, 3 years is about half as long as many customers want. Sure, XP is better, but it's also targeted largely at consumers and requires a lot of tweaking to remove the GUI eye candy that so many loath.
oh yes, M$ is developing a replacement for winXP. Several incarnations in clude "longhorn, montana, and a few other unnamed soon to come changes.. It wont be long before we all will be asked to spend another several hundred bux to upgrade and relearn another OS.. This and other news here http://www.wininformant.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=25850
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