- The History of Windows 2000 (abortretry.fail)
When Microsoft and IBM had their divorce, Microsoft left OS/2 in the rear view mirror and began driving toward NT. This marked the third operating system that Microsoft had fully intended to replace MS-DOS and Windows on the IBM PC and compatibles. The first such system was Xenix, the second was OS/2, and finally NT. The question that remained for Microsoft was which version of NT will accomplish this goal? Version 3.1, the first NT version, was successful for Microsoft internally, and NT 4 was a commercial success. This commercial success made certain that Microsoft would create NT 5, which began its planning phase in the summer of 1996 after the launch of NT 4 with the planned timing for release being in late 1997. This had been revised by the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference in May of 1997 to a ship date sometime in 1998. At this point, there was an intent to have a version for Intel’s Merced, for both 32 bit and 64 bit Alpha, for x86 workstations, and for consumer PCs. Here we see that Microsoft had pivoted from making a pure successor to NT 4, to having NT 5 be the version that unified the consumer and professional operating system lines, and the company had roughly forty two hundred people working on it…
- On the night of October 6, 1998, Shepard was approached by Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson at the Fireside Lounge in Laramie; all three men were in their early 20s. McKinney and Henderson offered to give Shepard a ride home. They subsequently drove to a remote rural area and proceeded to rob, pistol-whip, and torture Shepard, tying him to a split rail fence and leaving him to die.
- Shepard was pronounced dead six days after the attack at 12:53 a.m. on October 12, 1998. He was 21 years old.
- By 1900, Aberdeen had become home to many saloons, brothels, and gambling establishments. It was nicknamed “The Hellhole of the Pacific”, as well as “The Port of Missing Men” due to its high murder rate.
- On April 25, 2004, the body of Alena Stathopoulos, 29 was found on the Squak Mountain trail not far from SE May Valley Road by two hikers. Her roommate Esther Rose Havekost was convicted in December 2004 for murdering her in their shared apartment and for paying a man $10,000 to dump the body. She was sentenced to 27 months in prison.
- October 2 – The Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi is murdered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, triggering a diplomatic crisis for Saudi Arabia.
