I must have suffered through a news blackout last week on the Internet: I missed Microsoft's earth-shattering decision to rename Windows NT 5.0 to Windows 2000. When I stumbled upon the news while skimming through a pile of trade magazines that accumulated while I was out of town, my first reaction was "Hee haw! Bill, you've got to be kidding!" But I've subsequently concluded that it might turn out to be a significant event after all.
Advisor
Windows 2000
By Ed Yourdon
Posted November 10, 1998 | Technology | Amplify | Amplify | Amplify | Amplify
About The Author
Ed Yourdon was cofounder, with Karen Coburn, of Cutter Consortium. Ed served as Fellow of the Cutter Business Technology Council, and Founding Editor and Editor Emeritus of the Cutter IT Journal. He chaired Cutter's Summit for many years. Mr. Yourdon is widely known as the lead developer of the structured analysis/design methods of the 1970s. He was a codeveloper of the Yourdon/Whitehead method of object-oriented (OO) analysis/design and the… Read More
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