At least 70 percent of the NT Server installed base will skip Windows 2000 release 1. That´s the prophecy offered by Tom Bittman, VP and research director for GartnerGroup, during a keynote at the company´s fourth annual Windows NT and Windows 2000 conference in San Francisco. Microsoft will ship a service pack by mid-year as well as the first version of Datacenter Server, Bittman said, and a follow-on release will ship by the second half of 2001. Bittman called this latter version a "fix and finish" release--"mainly a testing effort on fixes since release 1, and additional tools/functionality for major features like Active Directory."

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