Windows 2000 goes gold - at last
Microsoft's long-awaited NT upgrade has finally been released to manufacturing.
The Windows 2000 operating system will be available to the public beginning on Feb. 17.
In an interview with ZD Radio , Microsoft Platforms Group vice president Jim Allchin said that the design team accepted "no trade-offs" in quality in order to meet the release deadline.
That deadline had already slipped by a year when Microsoft officials vowed to finalize the code for manufacturing before the end of 1999.
Allchin does not claim the product will be free of flaws - in fact, he candidly admits that developing a flawless OS on the scale of Windows 2000 would be impossible - but he claims the OS meets its key goal of delivering a less crash-prone platform.
The story is posted at www.zdnn.com . The audio interview is available at Share:
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