11/09/98 WILL WINDOWS 2000 BE PROPHETIC?

WILL WINDOWS 2000 BE PROPHETIC?

WINDOWS NT 5.0 BY ANY other name will be just as late--but that doesn't seem to worry Microsoft (MSFT). On Oct. 27, the company rolled out a new moniker for the NT operating system, originally expected this year: Windows 2000. Vice-President Brad Chase vows that the long-awaited operating system upgrade will ship in 1999. But he says a special, high-performance version to be called Datacenter Server will arrive up to three months later than the rest. This version represents Microsoft's first concerted effort to do the kind of data processing jobs in corporations that are now handled by mainframes.
EDITED BY KELLEY HOLLAND