Author: Eugene Nalimov
Date: 13:10:30 02/14/02
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Probably I don't understand something, but I just went into Windows Update (http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/) and it works well. It gave me suggested list of updates, and it nowhere says "no more updates would be available"... Eugene On February 14, 2002 at 14:19:03, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote: >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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