Windows 2000 Web site makes the Netcraft top 50

A site hosted on Windows 2000 has, for the first time, appeared in Netcraft's 50 sites with the longest uptime -- the longest period of time since the last reboot," reports the Sydney Morning Herald. www.byteandswitch.com has been running continuously since November 2000. The Top 50 is usually dominated by versions of the BSD version of Unix, which emerged from the University of California at Berkeley at the beginning of the 80s. (It is also the operating system that underlies the Mac OS X interface.) It's unusual for Windows 2000 to go more than a year without rebooting, mainly because Microsoft has some sort of phobia about making machines reboot when users add or update the software.