The more I read about Win 2K the more skeptical I become. The number that really surprised me was that 3/4 of games won't run on it, and here they were making all this noise for a year about DirectX 7 etc. etc.
Now as for no USB support at all, that is a misunderstanding of some kind. Below is a page from the hardware compatibility list on Microsoft's Win2k web site. You can see that, just in the area of input devices, a bunch of USB keyboards and mice are supported.
If, after W2K being 2+ years late and USB being supported in every other operating system in the world for a couple of years, if it doesn't come out with damn good USB support, then Steve Ballmer should fire everyone connected with the project and start over. It would just be completely unacceptable. Cameras and such may not have supporting software at first, but that won't take long to level out, and isn't a M$FT problem; it's not for lack of USB support in W2K.
Still, much of the press coming out about W2K these days concerns things it doesn't have, things it doesn't really do, bug counts, warnings to home users not to try to upgrade Win98 to W2K, etc.
It might not be as big a pop for MS as I thought.
--QS
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