I think you should expect to see Windows [2000] accepted readily by many corporations especially in the area of servers and networks.

The increased reliability and capability ... of that particular operating system should allow Microsoft and their Windows technology to push upscale [into an] area where they had some difficulty in penetrating in the past. And that should help us because Intel architecture and the Windows technology ride very closely together.

It can be a great way to find something that might not be readily available in your area. Maybe you'll run across an out-of-print book or something you couldn't find anywhere else.

If you take all the functionality that you get in Windows 2000 and try to re-create that on another platform, you would have to buy several different products, from several different companies, costing more money, and they most likely haven't even been tested to work together in an integrated fashion. With Windows 2000, you get all the functionality of a desktop operating system or a server operating system, along with an integrated Web server, transaction server and message queue server, and it's all in one inexpensive package, designed to work seamlessly together.

Most of the venomous snakes bite pretty readily.

We think we've pretty adequately covered the area. There will be holes; we're aware of that, and we're working to figure out what more we can do.