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With full financial backing, an Open Source scheme improving its core browser technology by leaps and bounds, and a version 5 rollout imminent, it was surely once more time to take the Netscape threat seriously. BradyL concurred with most of what Andy said, and consequently would like to push for the improved concurrency programming model in the next beta of Windows 2000. The idea would be to offer much better multi-threaded JVM performance, while still retaining the option to offer API enhancements that would be Microsoft proprietary. It might seem a bit late in the day to be addressing architectural questions, but flexibility was the name of the game. It was up to Microsoft to prove that it still held its market leadership position.