Microsoft: WinInfo was right; Windows 98 is dead

Microsoft, hoping to "clear the confusion" caused by reports thisweek, has decided to make an official statement about Windows 98 and the so-called "Windows 2000 Consumer Edition." The company even retracted not-so-confusing comments by spokesperson Bill Zolna, who said that a consumer version of Windows based on Windows NT technology was still some years away, noting that Windows 98 is, indeed,the end of the line. As reported all along in WinInfo, Microsoft will be sticking to its plan to provide only interim releases, bug fixes, and the like to Windows 98 and that it's next major release of a consumer OS will be based on Windows NT.

"[Mr. Zolna] had some misinformation, some bad data, and unfortunatelythat got quoted," said a spokesperson from Waggener-Edstrom, Microsoft's PRfirm.

So here's the deal, once again, not that it's ever changed:

--Pau