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There will be parties around the world to celebrate this latest champion steed from the Microsoft stable. All the same, you could be forgiven if you've so far missed or ignored this particular launch. It is all a far cry from Christmas 24, 1995 -the day on which Windows 95 was launched. Computer store managers across the US 'unlocked their doors and jumped out of the way as herds of customers stampeded their shelves'. Or at least, this is how one US IT journalist described it. Windows 98 is a product looking for a market and no one can agree on what that market is. According to Microsoft, this is the operating system for the home and small business market. Unfortunately, Windows 98 does not offer anything substantial in terms of new features to home users or small businesses. Microsoft believes that companies should go with NT client as the desktop operating system. And yet the only reason to use NT client is because your company is running NT server. Business users could do with Windows 98, since it clears up some of their network glitches of Windows 95. Confused? Well, so is Microsoft!!! The company is learning a difficult lesson. In 1995, regardless if the PC's use, the message was one PC; one operating system. Now, that message has become fatally mixed. Microsoft needs to get its message straight. NT or 95/98. It can't have both. This article is an extract from Computing. And is (c) VNU Business Publications.

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