Windows 2000Windows NT Workstation 5. 0 is now called Windows 2000 ProfessionalWindows NT Server 5. 0 is now Windows 2000 ServerWindows NT Server Enterprise Edition becomes Windows 2000 Advanced ServerPlus there is a new offering: Windows 2000 Datacenter ServerWindows 2000 Professional will be limited to support only two processors. Windows 2000 Server will be able to support up to four processors. Windows 2000 Advanced Server will support up to eight processors.
And Windows 2000 Datacenter Server will support up to 32 processors and additional clustering functionsIt is recommended to have at least 64 MB RAM and 700- 900MB of disc space for Professional and even more for the other packages. For multi-processor configurations, 128MB of memory should be considered minimum. Adobe had helped develop a new font called OpenType. That font builds Type 1 and TrueType capabilities into the OS. The new “Find” command will allow the user to search for available printers on the network. You can specify search criteria to locate all the color printers on the network and then narrow the search by say, the tabloid-size color printer nearest you.
Then, with a right click, the systen installs the printer driver, downloads a color management device profile automatically and you’re ready to print. It also has been revamped to now display graphical previews of found graphic images. It also offers a number of Internet-savvy features, uncluding live web links and Net searching. It has a new color management system developed by Linotype-Hell to produce system wide color management that will also extend to Internet Explorer, so that on-line purchases will result in the color the customer expects.
Quark a former Mac-only product is now being ported for Windows. The most obvious new feature of Windows 2000 is it’s so-called “intelligent menus”, which remember a user’s most-used selections. Thus, Windows 2000 learns to hide commands you don’t use often, although these hidden items can be seen by simply pausing at the Start Menu destination for a few seconds. There is a brand new Device Manager that, combined with its plug and play hardware detection and large list of supported hardware, makes it a huge improvement over NT in overall hardware compatibility. New hardware supported it Windows 2000: Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP), DVD, FireWire (IEEE 1394), USB Devices, Advanced Configurable Power Interface (ACPI), Multiple monitors, etc. “IntelliMirror” feature: the ability to automatically restore uninstalled drivers, deleted DLL’s, and other user settings, even if the user’s machine is replaced with a different one.
Dial-up Networking is very similar to the DUN in Win 98. Fax services are also provided, including fax logging, a fax queue and print to fax capabilities. The phone dialer has been enhanced with Video Phone and conferencing capabilities. Win 2000 supports FAT32 or NTFS, however you must use FAT16 if you want to share local drives between Win9x, NT4 and Win2000. Fortunately, it is possible to set FAT32 on some drives and leave others as FAT16 or compressed FAT16.This information is based on the features of the “Release Candidate 1” version of Windows 2000.Computers and Internet
