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The Ancient One · Jul 17, 2001, 08:04 AM

Seems that I'm suddenly seeing more stories like these:
http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0107/16.agere.shtml
http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/g...769049,00.html

The Via Technologies story is really important because it shows what PC makers are thinking.

Looks like FireWire may be winning after all - despite all the predictions of PC pundits last year that it would quickly die when USB 2.0 came out.

CMYKid · Jul 17, 2001, 10:57 AM

i didnt hear too many people predicting the demise of Firewire when Microsoft elected to support Firewire 2.0 with the newest version of Windows and NOT USB a couple of months ago...

The Ancient One · Jul 17, 2001, 05:59 PM

True, Microsoft will support FireWire from the start in XP but they DO plan to add USB 2.0 support later. The problem is Intel's slowness in getting the spec finalized. Believe me, I read at least a dozen stories in the PC press between late 1999 and the middle of 2000 that USB 2.0 would brush FireWire aside when it shipped by the end of 2000. Now they're saying 2002. I think it will be DOA if FireWire 2 is out by then. For once, Apple is on the right side of the standards wars.