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- From: msmith@netcom.com (Martin P. Smith)
- Subject: Re: Number of users etc.
- Message-ID: <l-0m6g.msmith@netcom.com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 03:47:55 GMT
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <1992Aug13.235913.22546@hellgate.utah.edu> <1992Aug14.105922.13684@actrix.gen.nz> <1992Aug16.005715.29881@microsoft.com>
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- In article <1992Aug16.005715.29881@microsoft.com> philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug14.105922.13684@actrix.gen.nz> Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
- >>In article <1992Aug13.235913.22546@hellgate.utah.edu> brian%jaguar.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Brian Sturgill) writes:
- >>> >And last but not least, is the number of NT betatesters (prerelease
- >>> >users) known?
- >>> Microsoft just announced that 10,000 pre-release SDK's have been shipped.
- >>
- >>Do they send these to people who plan to use them? Or do they just pump them
- >>out to a mailing list? I get all sorts of guff coming across my desk from
- >>vendors trying to get me on board with respect to their products.....
- >>
- >
- > You actually have to fork over money for the SDK - I'm not aware
- >of anyone receiving copies for free, or being sent unsolicited copies.
- >I would estimate that a reasonable percentage of those SDK copies went
- >to people who are either considering or committed to developing
- >applications for NT. And, of course, some of them went to people who
- >just wanted to take a look. But I would also venture to say that very,
- >very few of those 10,000 could be described as "shelfware."
- >
- > -Phil
- >--
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- >Phil Lafornara 1 Microsoft Way
- >philipla@microsoft.com Redmond, WA 98052-6399
- >Note: Microsoft doesn't even _know_ that these are my opinions. So there.
-
- Phil, Everybody who attended the NT conference here in S.F. got a copy
- of NT SDK gratis. Yea you had to pay for the conference but the NT SDK
- was free
-
- Martin Smith
- msmith@netcom.com
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