Windows 98 Delayed
News Item (cadieux@librarybook.com)
Fri, 26 Sep 1997 17:25:21 -0400
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 17:25:21 -0400
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From: News Item <cadieux@librarybook.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <conntech>
Subject: Windows 98 Delayed
I've a vested interest in the following news item, as I am planning to demo
Windows 98 for y'all at the Conn. Library Assoc. Conference in April, 1998.
Joe C.
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Windows 98 Delayed
Maybe you've heard this one before: Microsoft's next operating system won't
ship on time.
The word from Redmond is that the Windows 98, the much-ballyhooed upgrade
to Windows 95, won't ship until the second quarter of next year.
Microsoft never announced an actual release date for Windows 98--in fact,
it still hasn't. Most recently, the press has speculated that the release
would occur sometime in the first quarter of 1998, and Microsoft eventually
stopped denying it.
Second, Microsoft has had a long history of missing ship dates. While
delays, even very long delays, in the shipment of a single product
typically don't affect the entire industry, operating systems are a major
exception. The extended delay over the release of Windows 95 two years ago
infuriated just about everyone.
The conventional wisdom at the time was that Microsoft would go out of its
way to avoid such problems in the future. Apparently it hasn't: Windows 98
itself was originally scheduled to ship--again, according to most accounts
rather than any official notification--in 1997.
Edited article above. Full article at:
http://www.winmag.com/news/0901/0916a.htm