Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 18:57:09 09/14/99
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On September 14, 1999 at 19:09:28, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >No, that was MS's goal, but Windows 2000 sucks down too much memory/speed to be >used on "civilian" computers. I think the official deal is that Windows NT 5 >(formerly Windows 2000) will be called Windows 2000 Professional, which implies >to me that the next version of consumer windows will be called Windows 2000, but >will be basically the same as Windows 98. > >NOTE: I don't speak for Microsoft, and everything I've written can be found in >magazines. > >-Tom > >On September 14, 1999 at 12:11:04, Zachariah Amela wrote: > >>>Windows 2000 ought to do this since it is based on NT. >> >>Everyone tells me it does. I didn't think it would be primarily targeted to the >>home user right now. We have a few running 2000 beta, both flavors, and they both look like NT to my eye.. ie from ntfs, thru security issues, etc... Not like win98 so far as I can tell. I'll see if I can find a beta user with a dual to see if the non-server version recognizes dual cpus... I don't remember the two names they are using, whether enterprise and workstation or server and workstation or whatever the devil they chose to call the thing... But the main thing we were looking at is the security as we run NT everywhere, NT server on the various servers we have, and NT workstation on the user machines... And 2000 seems compatible everywhere my 'testers' have looked. I haven't followed this from 2 inches away however, since I have my hands full with our 100+ unix machines...
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