Microsoft Windows 2000 Anniversary

In 1995 I attended a Microsoft Windows release event. The event was hosted by a little PC shop with around 25 people in attendance.

As a small business owner, I would often mention to other business owners, "you should check out this new thing called a business PC". A large majority of them said, " you are quite imaginative Thomas, however, we've been successful in business for many years without IT, but, good luck with that".

In 1998 I attended a Microsoft Windows release event. The event was hosted by a little PC shop with around 100 people in attendance.

In 2000 I attended a Microsoft Windows release event. The event was hosted at a colosseum, by Bill Gates, with around 10,000 people in attendance. Both the "Dot Com Boom" and "Millennial Meltdown Scare" were occurring. The "Millennial Meltdown" never occurred but the "Dot Com Boom" went bust -

I still have my 2000 MSDN CDs from the intro event with Bill Gates. At the time, CDs were the only widely delivered data libraries.

“Today we unveil the future of computing" ,said Gates, at the Windows 2000 announcement event.

"Bill Gates predicted the future in January 2000"

Quoted from an article by Entertainment Weekly

Located while searching relevant content for this article. A more relevant reference could not have been found! A great reference as to why this 2020 article and the anniversary celebration event was created .

February 17th 2000 marked Microsoft's beginnings in Wide Area Networking for customers and partners alike - It marked my beginnings in "the field" as well.

A few more mentions of this date in history

• Posted Feb. 17, 2014, 8 a.m. - 5 years, 11 months ago

Computerworld FEB 19, 2001 12:00 AM PST