The significant Version 4.0 upgrade of Windows to Windows 95 in year 1995. This was later upgraded to Windows 98 in 1998. Windows Chicago, Windows 95, and Windows Version 4.0 are synonyms for the first version of Windows attempting to free itself from the constrains of Microsoft DOS. Latest information on Copeland and other operating systems can be obtained at <http://techweb.cmp.com/iw/center/default.html>. Details are provided in Information Week, April 29, 1996, p. 15. In October 1994, Syllabus on Page 23 asserts "Windows 95 is expected to become the next major operating system for the mainstream desktop and portable PC." Between now and the time most users are using forthcoming native software designed for Windows Chicago (later called Windows 95), users may efficiently run their old 16-bit Windows applications on Chicago's operating system. Windows Chicago is a 32-bit multitasking operating system that satisfies a wider array of users than either Windows 3.1 or DOS. Microsoft spent millions of dollars studying how to make Windows Chicago easier to operate than its predecessors. It is designed to be a plug and play system with enhanced features for hardware setup and multimedia device operations. It also has Internet utilities but is not the full networking operating system of Windows 2000 that will eventually become the most widespread operating system in the world according to many analysts. At the end of 1993, there were over 40 million Windows 3.1 users as compared with 4 million OS/2 adopters and 250,000 adopters of the new Windows 2000 32-bit processors. Since Windows 2000 and even OS/2 are not well suited to most of the existing 386 and 486 computers in the world, Windows Chicago fills a big market niche until users replace older machines with higher speed and higher memory capacity PCs. In an article entitled "Chicago Blues" in Information Week, December 20, 1993, p. 14, however, it is reported that Microsoft will have to compromise on some of its 32-bit system promises for Chicago in order to allow the system to be squeezed into customer machines that only have 4Mb of RAM. This is the classical problem of having to compromise power of an operating system for hardware limitations of a large customer base. As a result, Windows Chicago may suffer from the same crashing problems as Windows and still be confined to 16-bit graphical device interfaces (GDI). (See also Operating system .) Bott (1994) , however, denies that Chicago will have crashing problems. In an article comparing Windows Chicago with the other leading 32-bit systems, Bott (1994) calls it the "most promising software system in years" that will capture even greater market share than the earliest Windows version as a "sure thing."
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