ZDNET meldt in dit nieuwsbericht dat Bill 17 februari heeft gekozen als de dag dat Windows 2000 officieel het daglicht gaat zien.
Microsoft Corp. will launch its long-awaited Windows 2000 product on Feb. 17, 2000, officials told partners attending Windows 2000 Marketing Day in Las Vegas this week.The company will launch the product in San Francisco at IDG World Expo's Windows 2000 Conference and Expo trade show slated for Feb. 15 through 17 at the Moscone Center, sources said. Word of Microsoft's plans to launch Windows 2000 in February began leaking out earlier this month.[break]Hieronder wat info over wat er nog zoal gaat gebeuren tussen nu en de release over een kleine 4 maanden:[/break] Between now and the launch, Microsoft is set to deliver its third and final beta, Release Candidate 3, to a selected group of testers. A subset of the more than 650,000 RC2 testers -- mostly those in Microsoft's Joint Deployment and Rapid Deployment corporate test programs -- will receive RC3.
Microsoft will use Fall Comdex to tout RC3 and drum up "excitement and enthusiasm" for Windows 2000, officials told partners.
Microsoft still intends to release the final product to manufacturing before the end of calendar 1999. Officials told partners it looks like the product will go "gold" before Christmas.
