Microsoft is now saying that Windows 2000 will not ship until the middle of 1999.
By then Windows 2000, which embeds most major cryptographic algorithms and protocols, may hit critical mass.
His company is committed to "industry standards" such as Windows 2000 and Linux, he said.
The server service bug is found in Windows 2000, XP and Windows Server 2003.
Originally, Microsoft was set to include a basic management tool for CLB within Windows 2000.
"The Windows 2000 environment is a key part of our electronic business strategy, " Szygenda said.
Microsoft Federal Systems will help design the ship's IT architecture based on the company's Windows 2000 platform.
If it comes out in 2000, they can say, 'See, that's why we named it Windows 2000.
The Mocbot worm attacks machines running Windows 2000 or XP that only have Service Pack 1 installed.
At the moment, 8, 000 applications are Windows 2000-compatible, but only about 30 are certified, said Microsoft's Valentine.
Microsoft now figures a lot of firms will adopt Windows 2000 by late next year, spurring PC sales.
But not everyone is optimistic about the tight coupling of Windows 2000's AD with other forthcoming Microsoft products.
's Active Directory, which is part of Windows 2000 (the next version of Windows NT, due to ship this year).
At the event, Microsoft will officially launch Windows 2000 Datacenter, the last of the four versions of the operating system.
Microsoft said the security problem introduced by its update would affect the relatively small number of users running Windows 2000.
Microsoft now figures that a lot of companies will adopt Windows 2000 by late next year and thereby spur PC sales.
This could be a problem, especially when servers running Microsoft's Windows 2000 operating system offer industrial-strength computing for the first time.
Makers pray that companies will upgrade en masse to the Windows 2000 operating system, but sales are off to a slow start.
This, in turn, calls for a web version of its best-selling Office 2000 program to run only on computers using Windows 2000.
Although the server edition of Windows 2000 is designed to be cheaper than other operating systems for corporate networks, free is free.
Even if your organization can't get its hands on beta code today, there are steps you can take to prepare for Windows 2000.
But early beta builds of Windows 2000 show that the operating system is not completely integrated with some of the new management applications.
With its Windows operating system platform, the company succeeded Windows 98 and Windows 2000 with Windows XP and then the oft-criticized Windows Vista.
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Windows 2000 looks almost certain to succeed, eventually taking Microsoft, for the first time, into the inner sanctum of the corporate data centre.
Begin looking at these issues now, and let us know if you think there's more to preparing for Windows 2000 than meets the eye.
Addressing these issues now will put you in a position to smoothly handle the operating system upgrade whenever the Windows 2000 gold code becomes available.
Only now the complexity is really big: Microsoft's Windows 2000 has millions of lines of instructions, far more than any one person can possibly understand.
As those hit the market, Windows 2000's popularity probably will grow.
Besides basic identification info, the Top Tag also stores diet, behavior, command, medical, and burial instructions, which can be viewed and edited on any Windows 2000-or-later PC.
Unlike large corporations that can experiment with Windows 2000 in network labs before rolling it into production networks, many small- to midsize companies don't enjoy that luxury.
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