ZDNet heeft een artikeltje gepost over Neptune, de codenaam voor de op NT gebaseerde consumer versie van windows. Het is de bedoeling dat Microsoft ons in april 2001 hiermee eindelijk gaat verlossen van de brakke 9x kernel:
Microsoft will target Neptune at consumers, positioning it as a follow-on to Millennium, the next Windows 98 upgrade that is due next year. But because Neptune will be based on the NT kernel, Microsoft is encouraging its Consumer Windows division and Business and Enterprise divisions teams to share components, such as the user interface. As a result, the new usability features developed for Neptune will likely show up in future releases of Business Windows, as Microsoft is calling post-Windows 2000 versions of the operating systems. [break]En net nu NT een beetje stabiel loopt is Bill van plan om er allerlei helende Jomanda krachten in te verstoppen:[/break] Neptune will be Microsoft's first operating system to make use of the WinTone service that CEO Bill Gates outlined last fall. Much like Sun Microsystems Inc.'s WebTone cenept, WinTone is aimed at making PCs self-healing and self-updating.
Microsoft's slogan achter dit nieuwe OS is "It just works". Dream on 
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