13 Jan. - Bill Gates resigned as Chief Executive of Microsoft Corporation in favour of president Steve Ballmer. Gates will remains as Chairman, and fill the newly created post of Chief Executive Architect.
Cooper increases performance compared with similar chips that have aluminium wire.
AMD ships Athlon at 800 and 850 MHz. It showed as well on 8 February the 1.1 GB Athlon chip one week after Intel announced plans for 1 GB chip called Willamette. Windows 2000, the long-awaited successor to Windows NT, hits the shelves on Thursday, Feb. 17. The new operating system promises greater reliability, mobile computing enhancements, and improved network management tools. Apr. - MetaCreation has announced the sale of Painter, Bryce, Kai's Power Tools and KPT Vector effects to Corel Corporation on 11 April.