Andrew Roskill
![Andrew Roskill](/assets/img/authors/unknown.jpg)
Andrew Roskill
ceo details event impact likely marketing material platform product several
The event was more of a marketing event than a product launch, as a lot of the details were predictably vague. Further, CEO Ballmer conceded offstage that it likely would be several years before the .NET platform has any material impact on Microsoft's financials.
basically companies half operating ramp second slow test time windows
We have said for some time that Windows 2000 will have a slow ramp because companies take time to test and deploy new operating systems. Windows 2000 is basically a second half of 2000 story.