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Item 4922220 93/04/13 11:05
From: CONRAD_GEIGER@NEXT.COM@INET# Internet Gateway
Sub: Windows NT slips, again
FYI:
Extract from Unigram.X April 12-16 #431
DESKTOP NT "AT $180" NEEDS 16Mb, SHIPS NOW PROMISED BY AUGUST
Although Bill Gates has apparently firmed up prices for Microsoft Corp's
Windows NT operating system, they still aren't finalised, according to the
company. The first ship date has moved off into the future again, and "no
later than" August 1 is the new target. Ac- cording to Gates, in comments
reported in PC Week, large corporate customers looking to upgrade from Windows
3 to NT will be able to do so for less than $100 per desktop - the upgrade
price for Win- dows users will be $300, which translates to $180 "on the
street" and less than "$lOO per system" after deep volume discounts, Gates
told a meeting of the Corporate Association of Microcomputer Pro- fessionals
in Chicago. OS/2 users will be offered "extremely low prices." NT's suggested
retail price for new - desktop - users will be $500. More bad news is that
memory requiremeats are continuing to soar - Gates last week recommended that
NT users install l6MB on their desktop machines, even though the documentation
may specify 12Mb - and no more than about 10% of 80486 machines have 16Mb.
Servers could require more than 16Mb, he added. Initial NT buyers will need to
have specific applications in mind for it - "If you don't know why you want
NT, you probably don't want NT," he said.