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Name:Michael J. Robichaud
Location:Manchester, NH
Occupation:Software Engineer / DBA
 
I'm very excited about the release of Win2000, and from working with the product through out the beta program I clearly believe it's a much better Network OS then NT 4.0, and have loved the USB support.

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