Crucial.com Launches Comprehensive Guide to the Windows 2000 Operating System Upgrade.Business Editors/Technology Writers MERIDIAN Meridian (mərĭd`ēən), city (1990 pop. 41,036), seat of Lauderdale co., E Miss., near the Ala. line; settled 1831, inc. 1860. , Idaho--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 7, 2000 Crucial Takes Leadership Role, Providing Consumers Critical Memory Upgrade Guidance And More! Crucial Technology, a division of Micron, and the leading factory-direct memory upgrade supplier, today launched its comprehensive guide to the Windows(R) 2000 operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. upgrade on its award winning Web site at http://www.crucial.com/Win2000. As the &uot;Memory Experts,&uot; Crucial has taken the leadership role in the memory upgrade industry, providing customers with all the information needed to make informed decisions about upgrading the memory in their computer system to maximize the Windows 2000 experience. This comprehensive guide will be available starting today and well beyond Microsoft's Windows 2000 launch date of Thursday Thursday: see week. , February 17, 2000. &uot;At Crucial, when it comes to memory, we pride ourselves on delivering the most accurate, up to date information available to our customers,&uot; said Scott Schoenherr, Crucial's General Manager. &uot;Our comprehensive Windows 2000 Operating System Upgrade Guide is a special informative tool we believe customers will appreciate when making their upgrade decisions.&uot; Crucial's engineers have been testing Windows 2000 under many different system configurations. They found that adding just 64 MB of RAM to a Windows 2000 system increased performance up to 41%. Crucial also found that upgrading system memory delivered the best price/performance solution running Windows 2000 over any other upgrade, including processors. Crucial's comprehensive guide to the Windows 2000 operating system upgrade is designed to assist consumers with everything from determining the right version of Windows 2000 to Crucial's very own RAM recommendations. Testing benchmarks, RAM requirements, and other essential links are also available. Also, customers are encouraged to enter Crucial's &uot;Win Free Win 2000&uot; sweepstakes sweepstakes, contest or race, usually a horse race, on which a lottery is run. Prizes are awarded to the holders of winning tickets. In the case of a horse race, the draw is made from the names of all the horses entered in the race and vast numbers of blanks. today at http://www.crucial.com/sweepstakes. All participants will have a chance to win one copy of Microsoft's Windows 2000 Professional software and one copy of Windows 2000 Server software with five client access licenses. The sweepstakes will run from February 1 through April 16, 2000. Crucial Technology is a division of Micron Semiconductor Products, Inc., which is a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Micron Technology Micron Technology ("Micron") NYSE: MU is a multinational company based in Boise, Idaho, USA, best known for producing many forms of semiconductor devices. This includes DRAM, SDRAM, flash memory, and CMOS image sensing chips. , Inc. Crucial Technology sells memory upgrade modules factory direct from Micron Technology, Inc. and offers over 32,000 upgrades for more than 8,500 desktops, notebooks, servers and printers. Crucial has established itself as a leader in the memory upgrade market, growing its factory-direct Web business at http://www.crucial.com to nearly 90% of its total business. Micron Technology, Inc., and its subsidiaries manufacture and market DRAMs, SRAMs, Flash, other semiconductor components, memory modules, graphics accelerators A display adapter that performs a specialized set of graphics functions to render an image on screen. Today, all display adapters provide basic rendering functions in hardware, but many have graphics processing units (GPUs) that are sophisticated computers. , and personal computer systems. Micron's common stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) World's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange ) under the symbol MU. |
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