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Subject: Re: You should have switched to Win2000.

Author: Steve Coladonato

Date: 03:59:45 12/07/01

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On December 07, 2001 at 00:58:20, pavel wrote:

>On December 06, 2001 at 15:48:55, Tom Kerrigan wrote:
>
>>On December 06, 2001 at 14:31:34, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote:
>>
>>>http://www.rebel.nl/rc4.htm
>>>
>>>Fernando,
>>>
>>>I think that Bill Gates is at fault here.  Ed is a nice guy.  Win 2000 should be
>>>all you need till the year 2004 when Mr. Bill will introduce the 64 bit OS.
>>>
>>>
>>>Tim
>>>
>>>PS  WindowsXP is based on Win2000 and is a step backward.
>>
>>This obviously means that XP is worse than 2k... how?
>>-Tom
>
>Its certainly not worse. But saying that, its better, is also debatable. After
>tranforming to winxp, you lose some features you had, and gain some feature you
>probably dont want.
>
>I think winxp came a bit too soon, it should have given us more time to get
>ready for it.
>
>If you are asking about stability, i didnt see any differance over windows2k.
>Mine didnt crash ever since I installed it.
>
>Moving to winxp is just a matter of choice of having the latest ms OS installed.
>Nothing More, Nothing Less, IMO.
>
>Upgrading to windows2k from NT4 or Windows98/me is a big jump. But Upgrading to
>winxp from windows2k, is like having SUSE over redhat.

Either SuSE or Red Hat is much preferable to either Win2000 or WinXP.

>
>;)
>pavs



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