Are Microsofts customers hungry for the next version of its server operating system?
The company is banking on it, but industry watchers aren’t so sure. This week, Redmond, Wash.-based software giant issued the first release candidate, or nearly final test version, of Windows .Net Server. This successor to Windows 2000–delayed by more than a year–is intended to become the cornerstone of Microsoft’s much-hyped .Net Web services strategy. Getting customers to make the move to .Net Server is essential to fostering Microsoft’s shift to Web services, particularly among the large number of businesses still running Windows 2000’s predecessor, Windows NT 4 Server. Microsoft asserts that nearly one-third of Windows server users are strong candidates for .Net Server. “This release, more than anything else, is really the release that NT 4 customers are looking to as being a strategic path,” said Bob O’Brien, Microsoft’s Windows .Net Server group product manager. “For the NT 4 customer who wasn’t ready for Windows 2000, .Net Server becomes a very attractive target for them in te
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