The new key-features of Windows 2000 are:

• Internet Explorer 5.01 built-in
• new improved GUI with lots of useful features I don´t want to miss anymore (see also)
• FAT 32
• NTFS 5.0 with quotas (assign a certain amount of disk space to person x on your network)
• USB
• full DirectX 7.0
• Plug & Play
• FireWire (1394)
• overall broad hardware support for all up-to-date technologies
• advanced Power Mangement for Notebooks
• Hibernation. (all current data is being written to the disk, computer shuts down. Every application, document etc. will be restored with the next boot-up)
• IrDa support
• System File Protection (SFP)
• Driver Certifications to ensure that drivers meet highest quality standards in order to get more stability
• a built-in defragger (Executive Software Diskkeeper Light
• Internet Connection Sharing
• reboot scenarios cut down *dramatically*
• more overall-Performance on systems with at least 64 megs of Ram
• Multi-lingual user-interface, lets you personalize your Windows GUI to the language you want. (available in a special edition of Windows 2000)
• scales better than W9x: support for 4GB of RAM and 2 processors
• Personalized menues; automaticall sort links to Web Sites/Applications which have not been used for a certain amount of time
• Intelli-Mirror featuring "Offline Folders" to enhance mobility of your personal documents
  
• ..and much more. I just wanted to mention the main changes.

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