.Net
And now the bad news ... or, paranoiac crystal ball gazing guruism

Why
The Web Sucks
1997 - MSN fails to kill the internet
2000... more bandwidth and a new stragtegy
When
Windows 2001 ( Whistler ) already in Beta; available 3Q
Improved stability - NT core,
Bad legacy support,
Finaly a single code base for Windows,
.Net core infastructure integrated
Windows 2002-3 - full .Net support.
What
A new suffix for everything: get your Mc Coffee.Net
Windows at beggining and both ends