Microsoft is trying its hardest to get customers to migrate off Windows 95 (and, it hopes, onto Windows 2000). Reading between the lines, what can we forecast for NT Workstation v.4?

Windows 2000 shipped in February 2000, and now Microsoft has a problem. It needs to convince its customers to move to the new OS as quickly as possible and customers can never move as fast as Microsoft would like. However, while Windows 2000 is Microsoft's most compelling OS upgrade in years, enterprises are moving slowly because testing, planning and deploying a new OS for thousands of users in dozens of locations is not a trivial or inexpensive task. At this point, Microsoft has begun prodding enterprises to move.

The End of Windows 95: The various members of the Windows 9x family (Windows 95 and its OSRs, Windows 98, Windows 98SE and Windows Me) are not very different from one another. Gartner considers them to be a single OS for the purposes of most discussions. However, there are subtle differences between the various members of the Windows 9x OS family, and Microsoft and ISVs would like to be able to reduce support for some versions. Reducing support would both reduce expenses, as support personnel could concentrate on other products, and increase revenue, as customers buy upgrades. Recently, Microsoft has made several decisions that begin to spell the end for Windows 95.

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Source: Gartner Group

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