Editor's Note - January 1, 2000

Coming Attractions

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Congratulations! You made it through New Year's.

Hopefully, the IT pro component of your life remained glitch-free as you glided into the new millennium. If not, the Microsoft Year 2000 Readiness Disclosure and Resource Center continues to offer great resources to help you over the Y2K hump.

Windows 2000 Technology Center

This month, we'll be introducing some brand new documentation on the final version of discussion with other IT Pros.

T-shirts for Tipsters

We've posted dozens of your favorite tips on Windows 95 and 98. Our expert reviewers - who hail from product support - are in awe of the high quality of your tips. They gush, "Wow, some of these would make great KB articles!" Is there any greater compliment from a product support engineer?!

TechNet CD Subscriptions

The January 2000 TechNet CD subscription issue focuses on using the Windows 2000 Server Resource Kit for deployment planning. You'll receive the following volumes:

  • Windows 2000 Server Operations Guide

  • Windows 2000 Server TCP/IP Core Networking Guide

  • Windows 2000 Server Internetworking Guide

  • Internet Information Server Resource Guide

  • Windows 2000 Server Deployment Planning Guide

The January issue of TechNet Plus additionally includes the following new betas:

  • Microsoft Windows CE Studio 3.0 Beta 2

  • Microsoft Repository 3.0 Beta 1

  • Microsoft Windows Code Named Millennium Beta 2

A New Look for a New Year

Soon we'll be unveiling a new home page and expanded content in several sections of the site. Come back here on January 17th to read about - and see! - the many ways we've made the site even more valuable for IT pros.

Tim McBride

Group Manager
Microsoft TechNet

Illustrated portrait by Elizabeth Anderson, MSN Staff