Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 02:11:54 -0000
From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com>
Subject: Tidbit - Windows '98 "Feature"

Keyword: Advocacy, Windows Daymares

This tidbit is from:

Eric Wesselman

In the January 12 issue of Information Week, the article "Windows 98: 
Taking Shape" details some of the finer points of Microsoft's next 
masterstroke. "Windows 98 is clearly designed to be an operating system 
for the mobile corporate market," states the author. But, FAT32, 
Microsoft's new filing system that will fill the gap between FAT and NTFS 
has one minor glitch: "While FAT32 can enhance the performance of 
applications that frequently access the hard drive, Microsoft suggests 
that user of computers that frequently go into the suspend mode may not 
want to use the new file system because they might lose data."

I don't know if this article is available on the web. But this is just 
too funny. Now that many Windows desktop systems have a suspend feature, 
this "minor" issue ought to surface as one of the great IT debacles of 
1998.