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I went the the Windows 2000 launch today. It appears that the most important
new features were designed to make a network administrator's job significantly
easier as well as adding flexibility. The theme was the IS manager as Platonic
caretaker (read Fascist dictator). Microsoft is beginning to understand that
the common man just cares about the functionality. They claimed that a virgin
machine, with no operating system installed, could plug into a network and
come away with a fully funcational machine. This should help sell it into the
business community. For the individual user, it is NT4 with a Win98 interface
and features, with infrared, USB and DVD support built in.
"Patrick White" <simgenie@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
>
>
jfb
shaven heads trading
new york city
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