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. Both of these versions are based on the Win2000 operating system. What might surprise you is that in all respects Whistler is an update of both Windows Me and Windows 2000. In Beta 1, there are few significant features that you can't find in either Windows Me or Windows 2000.