Here's some information for all you guys out there who've got your RiscPC 486 boards working, but are a little confused about Windows, Windows for Workgroups, Windows NT, Presentation Manager, Chicago, Cairo etc. etc.
Sounds Riscy received this press release direct from Microsoft.
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REDMOND, Wash. -- While Microsoft Corp. programmers are working furiously to get Windows 95 out the door, plans are in the works for at least the next two follow-on versions.
Company officials discussed these plans here last week -- even as clerks distributed copies of U.S. District Court Judge Stanley Sporkin's decision that rejected a proposed antitrust consent decree, in part because of complaints that Microsoft publicly announced non- existent products.
Future products include Windows 96, an incremental upgrade to Windows 95, said Brad Silverberg, vice pres- ident of the Personal Systems division. Microsoft executives have told some of its sales force to expect Windows 96 late next year, sources said. Memphis, the follow-on to Windows 96, will be an even more comprehensive upgrade, officials said.
Windows 96 is likely to include features that didn't
make it into Windows 95, such as support for the OpenGL graphics language standard. Memphis is ex- pected to work on the P7 processor that Intel Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. are developing jointly. Memphis will include some of Cairo's object file system technology, sources said.
In the nearer term, Microsoft is getting closer to launching Windows 95 Beta 3, and is down to about 10 "show- stopper," or critical, bugs in the beta{fb1ff0000¹{fb1000000.
Beta 3, also known as M8, is slated to go to 50,000 testers next month. The final Preview release will go out in March{fb1ff0000²{fb1000000 to 400,000 sites worldwide. Each site will be authorised to install the system on five PCs, creating a potential beta tester population of five million, officials said..
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Footnotes:
¹ That never stopped them before, a member of Sounds Riscy said.
² Microsoft made this press release at the end of February, so the "next month" referred to is probably also March.
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I hope that makes things a lot clearer.
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