[dropcaps style=’2′]Microsoft shipped its next-generation business OS, Windows 2000, to vendors and hardware manufacturers beginning last Wednesday. It has been one long, strange trip to the final codebase (fraught with delays and strategy shifts from Microsoft) but after our in-depth examination is conducted of this new OS, we are saying it’s definitely worth the wait.[/dropcaps]
For any size of business, Windows 2000 has the proper stuff, each as a personal computer, business workstation and as a server. It’s stable, straightforward to set up, and packs in enough new options to form it as a vital upgrade from Windows NT 4.0. It’s even easier to run on most laptops (an area that NT 4.0 fell short). Windows 2000’s dizzying array of recent server tools can keep larger businesses busy deciding which of them to deploy, and therefore the server is refined enough to create it definitely worth the additional effort.
Windows 2000 is not for everybody, however. If you would like a replacement OS for game play or browsing the world wide web, you will be more contented with Windows Millennium Edition, the Windows 98 replacement due out the last half of next year. But if Windows 2000 is for you and you aren’t interested in a consumer focused product, you still have a wait of a handful of months to get your hands on a copy. If Microsoft does not run into any snags, the boxed version of Windows 2000 should hit store shelves and begin shipping with PCs on February 17, 2000, two months later than Microsoft had originally promised.