Author: Timothy J. Frohlick
Date: 11:19:03 02/14/02
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On February 14, 2002 at 14:04:42, David Rasmussen wrote: Dave, I went to the Microsoft page for an update for Win2000/Win2000 Pro and was informed that no more updates would be available. So Mr. Bill is abandoning his customer base in order to move WinXP. Pretty sour marketing. I suppose that he wants more money to feed the starving and sick children of the world but screw the consumer who made him rich in the first place. I agree with you on the Win98 vs Win2000 standing. Don't forget that most people who use computers never had any serious math,science or engineering courses and are lucky to know what kind of processor is in their machine. For occasional gamers, toy OS like Win98/Win95 are good enough. Hell, Windows 3.1x / Dos 6.2x is good enough for word processing and simple accounting programs. Tim Frohlick >>Paul > >XP is a good system, because it has done a clean breakaway from all sorts of bad >backward compatibility (in the driver model etc.). But some programs doesn't run >well on XP without changes. This problems should disappear with time, but right >now, there are still problems. > >If XP is not able to run your favorite program, run Windows 2000 instead. It is >the most stable OS Microsoft has ever made (possibly with the exception of XP, >we don't know yet). It is as stable as any Linux distribution in my experience, >although bad drivers and bad software (such as Microsofts own Internet >Information Server) are giving the OS an unfairly bad reputation in Linux >circles. Windows 2000 is light years ahead of Windows 98, which is just a toy OS >in my opinion. > >/David
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