Microsoft produced Release Candidate 2 of the USB 2.0 drivers for Windows 2000 late on Friday, and they promptly leaked to littlewhitedog.com and Digital Silence. There is as yet no word on when finished drivers will be available, although finished WinXP drivers themselves leaked two weeks ago, and are also downloadable via Intel, and Microsoft's hotfix FTP site. The release of the RC2 drivers ends almost three months of famine for Windows 2000 USB 2.0 owners. Microsoft thoughtfully expired the RC1 drivers when Windows XP was released in October, although it left the expired drivers up on Windows Update until December, so people could download them and not be able to use them.
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