Top Ten Reasons Why Windows 98 was Delayed

Extra time to code the Windows 3.1 upgrade path? Yeah, right. Here are the real reasons Windows 98 was delayed:

• 10. It's a leap year
• 9. All the programmers are busy working on The House
• 8. Want to coincide Windows 98 marketing efforts with the 98 Olympics
• 7. The compiler crashed, had to restart it
• 6. Not enough paper on hand to print the companion book, "Windows 98 Patches and Fixes"
• 5. "If we just wait until 2000, we won't have to worry about the millennium bug at all..."
• 4. Need to erase all the Norton antivirus code that's still in there
• 3. Not enough disk space on CD-ROMs--need to wait for DVD technology
• 2. Just discovered Netscape Communicator 4.0 runs perfectly-- need time to correct that
• 1. "Windows 99" just sounds cooler

For the whole story, see the NEWS.COM story:

http://www.news.com/News/Item/0%2c4%2c14229%2c00.html?dd