What about the Windows 2000 upgrade cycle, that everybody was continually saying was going to happen next quarter, and then the next quarter? A victim of budget cuts?
Good synopsis of the status of 2000 from InfoWorld:
Windows 2001
By Bob Trott and Ed Scannell
As Windows 2000 turns 1 year old, the future is looking a lot like the past
A YEAR AFTER ITS much-anticipated launch, Microsoft's Windows 2000 is in a place that might surprise some people -- right where the industry expected it to be: on the brink of big things but not quite there yet.
In 2000, application support for Windows 2000 lagged behind the client/server operating system, as many Microsoft critics predicted. Now, however, that support is strong and getting stronger, as Microsoft predicted. Many analysts urged large companies to hold off big deployments of Windows 2000 because of issues such as application support and new technologies such as Active Directory. Many enterprises took that advice, but Microsoft also secured several high-profile adopters who say there was no reason to wait.
The overall picture points to strong, if not outrageous, success for the software giant's core product...
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