I'll leave most of sheldon's message alone as I don't want to start a my operating
system is better than your operating system war.
I will correct one point though since I've been to a briefing on win2000 and have the
facts.
There will be 3 win2000 products,
home/small business (a replacement for nt workstation)
server (to replace nt server)
and enterprise (to replace the currently not much publicized windows nt enterprise)
All of these will be based on a windows nt core.
This is why the wdm was introduced with windows98, so we wouldn't all be left without
drivers for our devices that would run on nt5/win2000 as it is now called.
There will be no clean upgrade path from win9x to win2000.
Limited functionality will be available via an upgrade, but to take advantage of
features such as ntfs
(the nt file system) and other nt specific features,
you will require a full reinstall.
Since everything will be running atop an nt kernel, the screen reader will also need
to be nt compatible.
I hope this clears this issue up.
Regards
Aaron
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