Distortion of public standards makes Windows 2000 incompatible with IBM's worldwide networks. Home News Topics AAx IBM loudly proclaims it will be the world's biggest supporter and service provider for Windows 2000. One exec even said IBM would convert 300,000 of its own desktops to Windows 2000 as soon as it was out.
Reality is different.
IBM has banned connection of any Windows 2000 computer to any IBM production network. They can only be attached to special test and demonstration networks where no critical business or communications systems can be harmed. Microsoft boasts of how many Internet standards they have incorporated into Windows 2000. In actual fact, these are standards in name only , because they have been deliberately distorted to be compatible only with Windows 2000. IBM found that attaching a Windows 2000 computer to any one of its networks risked disruption of the entire network.