[ Thanks to George
Mitchell for this link. ]
“With Linux banners flying high in the sky nearby, Microsoft
Corp. Chairman Bill Gates unveiled Microsoft’s Windows 2000
operating system for businesses Thursday.”
“Windows 2000 is Microsoft’s most ambitious and important
product release in years, competing with the Unix and Linux
operating systems on servers and desktop computers.”
““It’s a huge milestone for Microsoft and the industry,” said
Gates in a keynote address at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in
San Francisco. “We’re taking the richness of business in the
pre-digital world and moving it to the Internet.””
“The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant launched the new
operating system — the basic software that runs computers — in
the home of many of its fiercest competitors, such as Sun
Microsystems Inc.”
“Several blocks away, Linux vendors TurboLinux and IntraLinux
flew banner ads above the Moscone Convention Center, where the
Windows 2000 Conference & Expo was held. And outside Moscone, a
Linux fan dressed as a penguin, the operating system’s symbol,
greeted people entering and exiting the center.”