>SR> Hi Bob,
 >SR> Excuse me for butting in, but Windows 97 NEVER will be invented,
 >SR> Microsoft will not be using numbers in names anymore. They cannot be
 >SR> copyrighted. Numbers as in versions are OK, but not numbers in names.
 >SR> The next version will be named Windows Memphis and will be sort of a
 >SR> combination of the best of Windows 95 and the best of Windows NT
 >SR> Ver 4, with a couple new twists. It's supposedly due out this summer
 >SR> (or Fall).      Stu Rothman
 >BN> That is a strange statement seeing that one of the local computer
 >BN> schools is advertising that theya re teaching the software.
 >BN> Bill
Bill, I think that if you check closely with that school, you just might find 
that they are teaching OFFICE 97, not Windows 97. I repeat, Microsoft WILL 
NOT be issuing the next version of Windows as Windows 97, they will call it 
Windows Memphis as there is a problem copyrighting a number. That's why Intel 
did not produce a 686 chip. They produced a Pentium instead. That way nobody 
else can produce a copy NAMED THE SAME. (Penta is six). Remember several 
manufacturers produced a 286 after Intel, and a 386, etc. Now there are 
manufacturers making a 686, a 6-86 and so on, but only Intel makes a Pentium.
This is probably the way of the future, I doubt that many software publishers 
that care about imitators will be using
numbers in their names in the future because of the copyright
problems. Some may not care, it depends on their size and their sales.
By the way Bill, The naming of the next version of Windows as Memphis is not 
just an opinion of mine. I deal with some of
the upper people in Microsoft and the naming of the next version as Memphis 
is an established fact and the reason they say is because of the copyright.
Stu
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