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Worried about being the last one out with a 64-bit operating system, Microsoft Corp. is working on the more powerful and faster version of its Windows NT operating system.
By the time Microsoft comes out with it, users will probably need it. Ed Muth, group product manager for NT, said he expects that the next major release of NT after Version 5.0 will be a 64-bit version.
Although users have been expecting NT 5.0 for more than a year, no official release date has been set. It is generally expected anywhere from mid-1999 to sometime in 2000. Microsoft plans an intermediate NT release the year after NT 5.0 is shipped, and the 64-bit version is slated to ship the year after that, Muth said.
But waiting until 2001 or 2002 for a 64-bit version of NT may...