Janos  | 2007-07-01
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Windows 2000 server, by the time of its release, was marketed as the most secure Windows version they had ever shipped. However, since nobody likes to hear others brag, it became the target of a number of high-profile virus attacks such as Code Red and Nimda, thus, after more than seven years after its release, constant patches for security vulnerabilities are released on a near-monthly basis. Also, the cherry on top of the cake was the fact that Microsoft recognized that the infamous Blue Screen of Death (or stop error) could cause major problems for servers that needed to be constantly running and, instead of having it fixed, or reduce in occurrence, they provided a system setting that would allow the server to automatically reboot when a stop error occurred. Also they added an option to dump any of the first 64 KB of memory to disk (the smallest amount of memory that is useful for debugging purposes, a minidump in one word), a dump of only the kernel's memory, or a dump of the entire contents of memory to disk, as well as a virtual black box, with the line of events that happened to the Windows 2000. For the improvements in performance Microsoft gave administrators the choice of optimizing the system's memory and processor usage patterns for background services or for applications. Windows 2000 introduced, along with other technologies, the Windows Installer, Windows Management Instrumentation, OpenType PostScript fonts (.OTF) and the Data protection API (DPAPI) into the operating system.