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<title>Windows 2000 Product Guide - Overview : [Microsoft Windows 2000 Platform, home page]</title>
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<IMG align=left alt="Windows 2000 Platform" border =0 height=88 src="/windows2000/images/imgOverP.gif" width=108 >Built on NT Technology, the Windows® 2000 Platform delivers the business operating system for the next generation of PC computing. With built-in Web and application services, Internet-standard security, and record-breaking performance at a low cost, it's the best operating system for doing business on the Internet.<br>
<br>Windows 2000 readily scales from one or two servers with a few dozen clients to hundreds of servers and thousands of clients. It's reliable—PCs, laptops, and servers running Windows 2000 stay up and running. It lowers cost because it simplifies management of users and computers. And it's the best operating system for taking advantage of all the latest hardware, from the smallest mobile devices to laptops to the largest, most powerful servers for e-commerce.
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<I>"Managing an IT environment as diverse and complex as Lockheed MartinÆs requires diligence in keeping costs low while maintaining a high quality of service. Windows 2000 will enable us to simplify the management of multiple IT environments and to store and retrieve vital information resources more efficiently in a secure environment supporting e-commerce solutions."</I>—Joe Cleveland, President of Enterprise Information Systems, Lockheed Martin
<TD width=11><!--mstheme--><font face="Times New Roman"><A HREF="file:///D:/Documents and Settings/ericbrus/My Documents/My Webs/myweb12/platform/overview/reliable/default.asp"><img src="/windows2000/images/icodoc4.gif" width=11 height=11 alt="Go to Reliability You Can Count On" border=0 vspace=2 /></A><!--mstheme--></font></td><TD width=5><!--mstheme--><font face="Times New Roman"><IMG alt="" height=1 src="/windows2000/images/1ptrans.gif" width=5 /><!--mstheme--></font></TD><TD class=finePrint><!--mstheme--><font face="Times New Roman"><A HREF="file:///D:/Documents and Settings/ericbrus/My Documents/My Webs/myweb12/platform/overview/reliable/default.asp">Reliability You Can Count On</A><!--mstheme--></font></TD></TR>
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Many customers are already using Windows 2000 in production environments today—read what customers are saying about the business advantages of the Windows 2000 platform.
<A href="file:///D:/Documents and Settings/ericbrus/My Documents/My Webs/myweb12/professional/overview/default.asp"><b>Windows 2000 Professional</b></A>
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The reliable operating system for business desktops and notebook computers. Designed with the Internet and mobile users in mind, Windows 2000 Professional helps keep business users up and running.</p>
<A href="file:///D:/Documents and Settings/ericbrus/My Documents/My Webs/myweb12/server/overview/default.asp"><b>Windows 2000 Server Family</b></A>
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The Server family comes in three versions to meet different business needs. <br><br>
The multi-purpose network operating system ideally suited to workgroups and small
business environments, Windows 2000 Server lets organizations securely and
cost-efficiently Internet-enable their business.</p>
<p>A separate edition, Windows 2000 Advanced Server, is designed for e-commerce and
line-of-business applications. It includes everything in Windows 2000 Server plus
availability and scalability features that support higher volumes of users and more
complex applications.</p>
<p>A third edition, Windows Datacenter Server, will be released after Windows 2000 ships.
Datacenter Server will include all Advanced Server features plus greater processing and
memory capabilities to meet the needs of intensive online transaction processing (OLTP), large data warehouses and large Internet and application service providers (ISPs and ASPs).</p>
<p>For more on the differences in the Windows 2000 Server family, see the table below:</p><!--IMG height=10 src="/windows/shared/images/ts.gif" width=1><br>
$149 for upgrade from Windows NT Workstation 3.51, 4.0<!--msthemeseparator--><p align="center"><img src="../../_themes/copy-of-tilt/atlrule.gif" width="600" height="10"></p>$219 for upgrade from Windows 9x
<A href="file:///D:/Documents and Settings/ericbrus/My Documents/My Webs/myweb12/professional/pricing/default.asp">Pricing and Licensing for Windows 2000 Professional</A>
<A href="file:///D:/Documents and Settings/ericbrus/My Documents/My Webs/myweb12/server/pricing/default.asp">Pricing and Licensing for Windows 2000 Server</A><!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
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<P>To see what qualifies as an upgrade, read <A href="file:///D:/Documents and Settings/ericbrus/My Documents/My Webs/myweb12/server/pricing/upgrade.asp">Windows 2000 Upgrades</A>.</P>
