Tod Nielsen, vice president of the Platform Group at Microsoft Corp., today addressed the Windows® World 2000 and COMDEX/Spring 2000 audience and announced that Microsoft has licensed over 1.5 million copies of Windows 2000 Professional, Server and Advanced Server in the two months since launch, four times the rate of Windows NT® 4.0.
This milestone includes estimates from channel resellers, retail outlets and PC manufacturers but doesn´t include licenses acquired through enterprise agreements from Microsoft´s largest customers around the world. Even with so many customers using Microsoft® Windows 2000, product support volume is remaining low, and the number of support calls per unit is the lowest in the history of Windows operating systems, evidence of the high quality and reliability of the products. In addition, Nielsen announced that the latest data from Netcraft reveals that more than 64,000 Web sites are using Windows 2000 as their hosting solution, surpassing operating systems such as AIX, HP-UX, MacOS and NetWare, and representing more than triple the 20,000 sites that were running the operating system at the launch on Feb. 17.
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This milestone includes estimates from channel resellers, retail outlets and PC manufacturers but doesn´t include licenses acquired through enterprise agreements from Microsoft´s largest customers around the world. Even with so many customers using Microsoft® Windows 2000, product support volume is remaining low, and the number of support calls per unit is the lowest in the history of Windows operating systems, evidence of the high quality and reliability of the products. In addition, Nielsen announced that the latest data from Netcraft reveals that more than 64,000 Web sites are using Windows 2000 as their hosting solution, surpassing operating systems such as AIX, HP-UX, MacOS and NetWare, and representing more than triple the 20,000 sites that were running the operating system at the launch on Feb. 17.
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