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This article presents a detailed
timeline
of events in the history of
computing
from 2000 to 2009
. For narratives explaining the overall developments, see the
history of computing
.
2000
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Date
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Event
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November
[1]
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The
Ericsson R380
, the first phone running
Symbian OS
was released.
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January 14
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The US Government announces that restrictions on exporting cryptography are being relaxed (although not removed).
This allows many US companies to stop the long running process of having to create US and international copies of their software.
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January 19
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Transmeta
releases the
Crusoe
microprocessor.
The Crusoe was intended for laptops and consumed significantly less electricity than most microprocessors of the time, while providing comparable performance to the mid-range Pentium II microprocessors.
Transmeta and Crusoe, new competitors to Intel and their products, initially appeared exciting and promising.
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February 17
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Microsoft
releases
Windows 2000
.
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March
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Be Inc. released
BeOS R5
for PowerPC and x86, which was the first release of
BeOS
for x86 to have a freely downloadable version which could be fully installed on a user's hard drive.
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March 4
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Sony releases the
PlayStation 2
.
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March 6
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AMD released an
Athlon
clocked at 1 GHz.
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March 8
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Intel releases very limited supplies of the 1 GHz Pentium III chip.
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June 20
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British Telecom
(BT) claim the rights to hyperlinks on the basis of a US patent granted in 1989. Similar patents in the rest of the world have now expired.
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September 6
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RSA Security
released their
RSA
algorithm into the public domain, in advance of the US patent (#4,405,829) expiring on September 20 of the same year.
Following the relaxation of the US government restrictions earlier in the year (January 14) this removed one of the last barriers to the worldwide distribution of much software based on cryptographic systems.
The
IDEA
algorithm is still under patent; government restrictions still apply in some places.
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September 14
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Microsoft releases
Windows ME
.
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November 20
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Intel releases the
Pentium 4
. The processor is built using the
NetBurst
microarchitecture, a new design since the introduction of the P6 microarchitecture used in the Pentium Pro in late 1995.
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2001
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Date
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Event
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January 4
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Linux kernel version 2.4.0 released.
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February 1
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Foundation of the newco
Loquendo
as a spin-off of the
CSELT
's voice technology group.
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February
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The
Agile Manifesto
, which crystallised and named a growing trend towards more "agile" processes in software development, was released. The perceived success of agile project management led to agile approaches such as
Scrum
later being used as a general project management approach in other fields, not just in software development or even in computing.
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March 24
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Apple released
macOS
(as Mac OS X). This was a new operating system derived from
NeXTSTEP
, using
Darwin
as its
kernel
, an Open Source operating system based on BSD. This replaced the
"classic" Mac OS
for its Mac computers.
Mac OS X finally gave Mac users the stability benefits of a protected memory architecture along many other enhancements, such as pre-emptive multitasking.
The BSD base also makes porting
Unix
applications to Mac OS X easier and gives Mac users a full-featured
command line
interface alongside their GUI.
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September 14
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Nintendo
releases their
sixth generation
home console, the
GameCube
.
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October 25
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Microsoft released
Windows XP
, based on
Windows 2000
and
Windows NT
kernel
. Windows XP introduces a heavily redesigned GUI and brings the NT kernel to the consumer market.
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November 15
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Microsoft releases the
Xbox
in North America.
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2002
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2003
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Date
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Event
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February
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Nvidia
releases
GeForce FX
, a family of
DirectX 9.0
-compatible 3D cards with extensive support for pixel and vertex shaders.
With this new product Nvidia makes an emphasis on image quality, proclaiming a "dawn of cinematic computing", illustrated with the popular Dawn demo utilising extremely realistic skin and wing shaders.
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March 6
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SCO Group
announces it would sue IBM for US$1 billion. The claim is that Linux contains code inserted by IBM that was the copyrighted property of SCO (see
SCO v. IBM
).
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March 12
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Intel releases the
Pentium M
for notebooks and the
Centrino
mobile platform. The Pentium M delivers similar or higher performance than the Pentium 4-M while consuming less power.
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April 22
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AMD releases the
Opteron
line of server processors. The Opteron is the successor of the
Athlon MP
, and introduces the
64-bit
K8
microarchitecture.
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September 23
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AMD releases the
Athlon 64
. The Athlon 64 is built on the K8 microarchitecture and is the first 64-bit processor widely available to the consumer market.
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December 17
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Linux kernel version 2.6.0 is released.
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2004
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2005
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Date
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Event
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February 26
|
Jef Raskin
, who in 1979 envisioned and established the
Macintosh
project at
Apple Computer
, dies at the age of 61.
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April 29
|
Apple Computer releases
Mac OS X Tiger
(v10.4) for PowerPC-based Macs.
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May 25
|
Nokia
announces the
Nokia 770 Internet Tablet
, the first device running
Maemo
.
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May 26
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Intel releases the
Pentium D
, their first dual-core 64-bit desktop processor.
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May 31
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AMD
releases the
Athlon 64 X2
, their first dual-core 64-bit desktop processor.
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June 6
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Apple announces they are going to use
Intel
processors in upcoming Macintosh computers.
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July 22
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Microsoft announces their next consumer operating system,
Windows Vista
(previously "Longhorn"), to be released in early 2007.
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November 22
|
Microsoft releases the
Xbox 360
.
[4]
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2006
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Date
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Event
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January 5
|
Intel releases the
Core
brand. These are mobile 32-bit single-core and dual-core processors that were built using a modified design of the
Pentium M
's microarchitecture.
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January 10
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Apple Computer
introduces the
MacBook Pro
, their first Intel-based, dual-core mobile computer, as well as an Intel-based
iMac
.
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June 19
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Researchers create experimental processor that operates at higher than 500 GHz when cryogenically frozen.
[5]
[6]
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July 27
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Intel releases the
Core 2
processor.
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September 26
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Intel announces plans for an 80-core processor that would exceed 1 TFLOP, planned to be available in 2011.
[7]
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November 11
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Sony releases the
PlayStation 3
.
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November 19
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Nintendo releases the
Wii
.
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December 24
|
AmigaOS 4
was released by Hyperion Entertainment (VOF) under license from Amiga, Inc. for
AmigaOne
registered users.
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2007
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2008
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Date
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Event
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September 2
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The first public beta version of the
Google Chrome
web browser was released. Chrome subsequently became the most popular web browser in the world, overtaking Internet Explorer.
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September 23
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The first version of
Android
was introduced by
Google
.
[9]
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October 22
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The
HTC Dream
(T-Mobile G1), the first commercially available device to run the Android operating system, was released.
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2009
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