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Bugfest! Win2000 Has 63,000 'defects'
News Not everyone will be having fun at Microsoft next week. While the software giant and its partners celebrate the arrival of Windows 2000 on Thursday, Feb.hundreds of members of the Windows development team will be busy cleaning up the mess.
[February 14, 2000, 9:25]
Can Gates The Salesman Sell Win2000?
News Microsoft CEO Gates on Thursday spent his 44th birthday in the Big Apple. While there, he was scheduled to call on Chase Manhattan's top IT brass to discuss why Chase isn't committed to deploying Windows 2000 next year, say sources close to the New...
[November 1, 1999, 7:45]
Gates: Win2000 Will Ship This Year
News "We are very close to the final shipment," Gates told some 1200 managers here at Dell Computer's DirectConnect conference. We're pretty sure the builds will go final by the end of the year. Gates, who spent much of his keynote reiterating plans for...
[August 26, 1999, 8:41]
Win2000: Going Once, Going Twice ...
News Microsoft staffers have been auctioning off copies of Windows 2000 software on eBay, a practice the company frowns on but has had only mixed success reining in. Senior management has cautioned employees and contractors that the private resale of...
[April 25, 2000, 16:12]
IBM Bets Big, Not Blindly, On Win2000
News At a two-day Windows 2000 forum for the press at IBM's Research Triangle Park facility, IBM officials reiterated the company's commitment to Microsoft's next-generation operating system. When Microsoft ships Windows 2000 -- which is expected to be...
[August 31, 1999, 8:42]
Comdex '99: Win2000 Beta Wednesday?
News Microsoft didn't make its goal of releasing to manufacturing last week the final broadscale beta of Windows 2000, but it's looking like it will do so on Wednesday. Microsoft was hoping to finalise the so-called Release Candidate 3 last week so that...
[November 17, 1999, 10:11]
MS Moving Hotmail To Win2000 Servers
News It has been an ongoing sore spot for Microsoft that its highly trafficked Hotmail site runs atop not its own operating system, but the FreeBSD-Apache platform. Since it bought Hotmail at the end of 1997, Microsoft repeatedly promised that it would...
[August 3, 2000, 11:17]
News Burst: MS Says Win2000 On Track For This Year
News But Brian Valentine, vice president of Microsoft's Business and Enterprise Division -- who, under senior vice president Jim Allchin, heads up Windows 2000 development at Microsoft -- also acknowledged Wednesday that Release Candidate 3, the final...
[October 14, 1999, 9:53]
Gates: Win2000 'dramatically More Reliable'
News Microsoft's chairman Bill Gates predicted the long-awaited operating system Windows 2000, due to be launched on Thursday, would be "dramatically more reliable" than other company releases. Windows 2000, which cost $1bn (£610m) to develop, is the...
[February 17, 2000, 15:39]
Dell: Win2000 Is A Good Thing
News Dell, who provided the opening keynote at this week's Windows 2000 Conference & Expo in San Francisco, attempted to distance himself from comments he made last Thursday during Dell Computer's fourth quarter earnings call.
[February 16, 2000, 10:42]
After Win2000, It's Whistler And Blackcomb
News Microsoft wants all eyes on Windows 2000 when it officially rolls out the product next week. But its Windows development team already has moved on to work on the next two versions of Windows. Microsoft is targeting March 2001 to deliver the first...
[February 10, 2000, 14:47]
News Burst: After Win2000, It's Whistler And Blackcomb
News Microsoft wants all eyes on Windows 2000 when it officially rolls out the product next week. But its Windows development team already has moved on to work on the next two versions of Windows. Microsoft is targeting March 2001 to deliver the first...
[February 10, 2000, 12:56]
Novell Launches Anti-Win2000 Campaign
News Aside from occasional jabs during press conferences and a random white paper here and there, Novell has done little to capitalize on the lateness of Microsoft's Windows 2000 product. Until now. Novell has launched a Web site where it plans to...
[January 21, 2000, 9:50]
Microsoft Shows Sneak Peek Of Win2000 Beta 3
News At Local Media Day on the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Washington, company officials showed a recent build of Windows 2000 beta 3 and discussed enhancements that customers can expect in the coming months.
[March 10, 1999, 9:06]
Win2000: Later '99 (and Counting)
News If you were among those expecting Microsoft Corp.to ship Windows 2000 by mid-1999, don't hold your breath. Beta 3 of the long-awaited operating system is now not expected to reach testers until April, Microsoft officials confirm.
[January 18, 1999, 10:38]
AutoRun USB XP Service
Downloads Launch one or more documents or programs automatically when you plug in your USB flash drive. Runs transparently as a windows service on Win2000/WinXP. Just download and install the AutoRun USB service on your Win2000 or WinXP PC.
[September 23, 2008, 3:16]
Will Longhorn Be Worth The Pain?
Talkback I, too, am a home user. I don;lt wnat cute graphics. I want a steady OS that will run the programs I've already got and an occasional new one. And I don't want to ring up anyone for permission about anything.
[April 1, 2005, 14:06]
Jesse Berst: The Hidden Failure Of Windows 2000
News That old adage refers to military campaigns.but it could have been written about operating systems. Take Windows 2000, for example. Due this autumn, Windows 2000 is the update to Windows NT 4.0, Microsoft's "serious" operating system for business...
[June 22, 1999, 8:49]
I Gave Up
Member Review Having had Norton 2002 & 2003 I bought 2004. I could not install it on Win2000. It comes up with an error pointing at a support page that is useless. After 10 days their help desk responded suggesting I uninstall haha.
[March 19, 2004, 13:24]
First Windows 2000 Virus Discovered
News The new virus, "Win2K.Inta" or "Win2000.Install", is designed to work specifically on the Windows2000 platform and does not pose a threat to users of earlier editions of Windows, according to F-Secure.
[January 13, 2000, 6:09]
