Computerworld.com Launches `WIN2K Watch:' Valuable Resource On the New Windows 2000 for the Technology Community.

Business/Technology Editors

FRAMINGHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 8, 2000

While the world waits and wonders whether Windows 2000 will live up to its pre-launch hype and revolutionize desktop computing, Computerworld - an information services company for the information technology (IT) Leader community - today launched &uot;WIN2K Watch,&uot; to provide ind-depth and up-to-the-minute news and information about the new, 32-bit operating system.

WIN2K Watch - housed at www.computerworld.com/win2k - offers a trove of resources, such as news, analysis, surveys and user forums designed to provide the ultimate &uot;toolbox&uot; for IT Leaders who want the scoop on Windows 2000. The Web Site also features a vast archive of Computerworld's Windows 2000 articles - all categorized by subject for easy surfing - and a list of software tools.

&uot;While our recent surveys have shown that IT Leaders will not for the most part - adopt Windows 2000 right away, this new system is clearly of great interest to the technology community,&uot; said Patricia Keefe, editorial director for print/online at Computerworld. &uot;Our readership always has looked to us to provide unbiased, critical analysis of new technologies, as well as in-depth looks at how their peers are applying new technology to their business problems and goals. Our WIN2K Watch will make this coverage broadly accessible to everyone with an interest in this new software system.&uot;

Computerworld - with more than 50 international editions that cover IT issues from Antarctica to Taiwan - is based in Framingham, MA, with U.S. offices in Washington, D.C. and Silicon Valley.

The flagship publication of International Data Group (IDG), Computerworld, Inc. is an information services company for the IT Leader community, providing print and online publications, books, conferences and research services. Computerworld has won dozens of journalism and design awards in recent years from organizations such as The American Society for Business Press Editors (ASBPE), Folio: Magazine and the Computer Press Association as the best computer newspaper. With a circulation of 250,000, Computerworld is read by more senior-level managers than any other IT Newsweekly, according to IntelliQuest CIMS v.6.0.

Headquartered in Boston, IDG is the world's leading IT media, research and exposition company. IDG publishes more than 290 computer magazines and newspapers and 4,000 book titles and offers online users the largest network of technology-specific sites around the world through IDG.net (http://www.idg.net), which comprises more than 250 targeted Web sites in 55 countries. IDG is also a leading producer of 168 computer-related expositions worldwide, and provides IT market analysis through 49 offices in 42 countries worldwide.

Company information is available at http://www.idg.net.