More than 200,000 people are expected to receive copies of Beta 1 in coming weeks. Based on the current evolution of the product, Microsoft estimates that the final product will ship, in both personal, workstation and server editions, in the second half of 2001.
Whistler is primarily an update of the client, or desktop, operating system.
Although there will be server versions of Whistler, they will probably not ship at the same time as the client. On paper, at least, it could be the best of two worlds. Whistler is primarily an update of the client, or desktop, operating system. Although there will be server versions of Whistler, they will probably not ship at the same time as the client. There will be two desktop versions of Whistler, which could be dubbed Windows 2001 Personal and Windows 2001 Professional.