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It seems to me that much of the negative comments regarding Windows 2000
come from people who haven't yet installed it on their machines. I have been
happily running Win2K on my machine for the last 3-4 months with great
success. I did the upgrade from Win98, and I'm not going back. If you have
NT, the reasons for upgrading would be:
1) Stay ahead of the Microsoft upgrade curve so you continue to get
"upgrade" prices.
2) Multiple Monitor support.
3) It is about as easy to use as Win98
If you are running Win98, There are some pretty solid reasons to upgrade to
Win2K:
1) Stability of NT (I have only had about 2 times where the whole system
went down and those times were related to my video driver. I can keep it up
for a week or two with no problems. One program crashing doesn't bring down
the whole system. Even if Explorer crashes, the system stays up!)
2) Ability to run TS 4.0 in a separate memory space like NT. I did manage to
get TS4 installed and running according to the instructions on the Omega web
site.
3) Built in firewall / web server / mail server capabilities
At very least, if you have a LAN that uses a Win98 machine as your gateway,
I would suggest upgrading that machine to Win2K. The upgrade from win98 to
2000 is really a no brainer just because of the stability issues.
caveat:
The OS seems to use more memory, so I would suggest 128MB for comfort with
96MB as a bare minimum.
Patrick White
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