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Events on Thursday 17 February 2000 1
2000Release of Windows 2000Microsoft ships its business operating system built on Windows NTMicrosoft released Windows 2000 to the public on 17 February 2000 as the successor to Windows NT 4.0, aimed at corporate and server users. It introduced Active Directory, the NTFS 3.0 file system and improved plug-and-play support. Home systems that year moved instead to Windows Me.