When did computers become a household item?

Home computers were a class of microcomputers that entered the market in 1977 and became common during the 1980s. They were marketed to consumers as affordable and accessible computers that, for the first time, were intended for the use of a single nontechnical user.

What interesting development in the history of computers that occurred in the year 2000?

Microsoft released Excel 2000 for the PC and Mac in 2000. Microsoft released Word 2001 for Mac in 2000. Intel introduced the ATX 2.03 revision in May 2000. AMD first released the Duron processor on June 19, 2000, with speeds of 600 MHz to 1.8 GHz and bus speeds of 200 MHz to 266 MHz.

What is the first version of Active Desktop in Windows 2000?

Windows Explorer has been enhanced in several ways in Windows 2000. It is the first Windows NT release to include Active Desktop, first introduced as a part of Internet Explorer 4.0 (specifically Windows Desktop Update), and only pre-installed in Windows 98 by that time.

What was the original name of Windows 2000 64 bit?

Windows 2000 Service Pack 1 was codenamed “Asteroid” and Windows 2000 64-bit was codenamed “Janus.”. During development, there was a build for the Alpha which was abandoned some time after RC1 after Compaq announced they had dropped support for Windows NT on Alpha.

What was the first commercially available general-purpose computer?

The title of “first commercially available general-purpose computer” probably goes to Britain’s Ferranti Mark I for its sale of its first Mark I computer to Manchester University. The Mark 1 was a refinement of the experimental Manchester “Baby” and Manchester Mark 1 computers, also at Manchester University.

Can I install Active Directory on a Windows 2000 professional computer?

Active Directory services could always be installed on a Windows 2000 Server, Advanced Server, or Datacenter Server computer, and cannot be installed on a Windows 2000 Professional computer. However, Windows 2000 Professional is the first client operating system able to exploit Active Directory’s new features.