OEMs will be required to ship with each computer either a 'BIOS-locked' CD-ROM that ties the CD to a particular make or model of computer or to put a backup copy of the OS on the hard disk

Windows 2000 Professional, Windows 2000 Server, and Windows 2000 Advanced Server will begin the manufacturing process immediately, with a target retail release date of Feb. 17, 2000; DataCenter Server should be available by June 2000

Confidence in the Windows NT 4 Service Pack release process was shaken in late November 1999 as Microsoft unexpectedly released SP6a

Windows NT 4.0 Server Terminal Server Edition SP5 contains only bug fixes and is essentially the same product as the NT 4.0 SP5 released in May 1999

Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 have earned the FIPS 140-1 level 1 rating for cryptographic security

Security patches issued between Oct. 25 and Dec. 9, 1999

Millennium is an upgrade to Windows 98, targeted at consumers, that Microsoft plans to deliver in the year 2000

The new Consumer Group brings together executives previously scattered throughout the Microsoft organization under a single manager, group vice president Richard Belluzzo

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) says that Microsoft has violated the Sherman Act, the cornerstone of U.S. antitrust law, in at least four ways