Windows 2000 build 1877

Windows 2000 build 1877 is the official Beta 2 build of Windows 2000. It is available in English, German, and Japanese. A Korean version was shown in a magazine but is yet to be found.

Changes

 * The Command Prompt will no longer launch minimized during the graphical stage of setup. This change would be later reverted in the next build.
 * This build does not include the Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator, which however is included in both the previous and the next build.

Findings
The boot screen of the German localization notably features a different boot screen for the Workstation SKU, with the rectangles with the Windows flag being colored grey instead of blue. Also, the animated banner is colored dark blue-grey instead of dark-sky blue. This is perhaps due to a lower color depth.

Installation

 * The mouse may get disabled during the GUI portion of the setup.

VirtualBox
After the "Installing and configuring devices" section of the setup, the screen will turn black and will not come back. The only way to workaround this is to boot to the CD and repair the install and proceed with the installation as usual. This bug persists until build 2000.

German localization

 * When booting off from the CD, the whole text-based setup is in English. This does not affect setup started with  or   respectively, but the license agreement will remain in English.
 * The "Welcome to Windows NT" application is not fully translated and uses Server branding for the banner in the Workstation SKU.

Miscellanous

 * The icons in Device Manager are not displayed properly.

IA-64/AXP64 references
The SDK for this build has a readme and batch file claiming that it includes "Preliminary Platform SDK support for Win64" with "pre-beta releases of an IA64 compiler and an AXP64 compiler and linker"; the batch file however expects them to be in a  directory which is not included.