Win XP has landed - now what?
ZDNet | at | by Mike
Windows 2000, says Steve Ballmer, "wasn't finished." Windows XP, he implies, is finished. For once, I almost believe him--despite the fact that I know damn well I'm going to be writing stories about faults and failings in XP over the next months. But boy, has it taken him a long time to confess to something that was painfully obvious years ago. I almost don't mind, because at last, he's done it; and it may be the biggest breakthrough ever, in Microsoft's attitude to the world. We'll know soon, when Microsoft comes clean about what it is going to do about the 64-bit Intel processor family. What Microsoft had hoped to do with Win 2K, was to provide something which ran all existing Windows software, but did it reliably. What it actually did, was tell fibs, and pretend it had done it when it hadn't.