Microsoft released Windows 2000 on February 17th. We are not planning on upgrading the campus computer labs to Windows 2000 due to the following reasons:Therefore, we will not upgrade the computer rooms to Windows 2000. We will evaluate Windows Millennium Edition for installation in the campus computer rooms when it is released.
- Windows 2000 has very high hardware requirements (Pentium II processor with 128 MB of RAM). Many of our systems cannot adequately run Windows 2000.
- Windows 2000 is an upgrade to Windows NT, not to Windows 95 and Windows 98. The upgrade to Windows 9X called Windows Millennium Edition will be released later in the year.
For more information see the campus Windows 2000 webpage at http://win2k.ucdavis.edu/.
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