It is, quite possibly, the most under-hyped version of Windows ever created. But for home users confused by the incompatibilities, cost, and system requirements of Windows 2000, Microsoft's last hurrah in the Windows 9x product line offers a ray...
Microsoft promised a number of features for Windows 2000 Service Pack 1 (SP1), but none of them seemed more promising than an install integration feature called ...
Better interface, more improvements on the way to Beta 1
When you compare the early pre-beta releases of Whistler--the next version of Windows 2000--with the first beta release of its predecessor, it's easy to see to difference. Unli...
A work in progress, but a stunning work in progress...
"[Microsoft needs to] get over NT. Microsoft has been talking up Windows NT so much for the past few years that they're hovering at the point of no return. Here's a news flash, Microsoft: People love Windows 98... And guess what? It never crashes...
While Windows NT/2000 has always been known for its networking prowess, earlier versions defaulted to proprietary, non-routable networking technologies such as NetBEUI, the NetBIOS Enhanced User Interface protocol. In Windows 2000, Microsoft...
With primary goals of simplicity and ease-of-use, it's no surprise that Windows Millennium Edition ("Windows Me") is designed to make things obvious for new users from the get-go. Microsoft has designed an "Out-Of-Box Experience" (OOBE) for...
Windows NT was designed from the ground up to be a network operating system (NOS) such as UNIX and VMS, not a desktop operating system such as MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows. Thus, networking and networking terminology are a given in any discussion...
When it comes to actually sitting down and using Windows 2000, the design mantra becomes obvious: Windows 2000 is the easiest Windows yet. And though the interface is largely similar to Windows 98 and NT 4.0, Microsoft has tweaked the user...