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You might find that the hardware driver issue is (perhaps) a non-issue. As I
stated before, on my laptop, pre-release versions of Win 2000 have been
running for many months. One of the best features of the OS was that it
automatically detected the weird and wonderful assortment of firm ware and
PCMCIA cards in my machine. I didn't have to supply a single driver.
If anyone out there has installed NT 4.0 on a NEC Versa 6230 class machine,
you will appreciate the difference!
Re muted reception in the stores, I am not surprised. I doubt they will plug
it hard to consumers for some time. But eventually.
Warning, OMEGA issued a tech bulletin today that they do not support TS2000i
on Windows 2000 (officially, I guess) until TS2000i SP5.
My production TS2000i software is running on my Win NT 4.0 box. I have no
worries...
Michael
-----Original Message-----
From: M. Simms [mailto:prosys@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 9:37 AM
To: ManningSto@xxxxxxx; omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Windows 2000 Professional; MAYBE great news
Gang - a little known fact about Win2000 is that Microsoft "attempted" to do
a registry migration from Win98 !!!
Yes, that's right....we can extricate ourselves from that miserable wretched
O/S.....MAYBE.
They are not publicizing it much....and you know what that means....."IFFY".
New hardware drivers of course will be needed, but that's no work compared
to the thousands of application program settings that would have to be reset
if you did this from scratch !!
Stay tuned....will let you know how it goes.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ManningSto@xxxxxxx [mailto:ManningSto@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 11:34 AM
> To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Windows 2000 Professional
>
>
> Interesting day in the stores.
>
> No copies of Win2000 Professional on the shelves. One must ask for it.
> Prices at CompUSA at $219+ for the upgrade. I found it at Staples
> for $149.97
> not including the $70 rebate if you upgrade from NT 4.0. That
> makes it around
> $80.
>
> As of 10:00 AM EST, no sales made at CompUSA in Woburn, Mass and
> I was the
> first purchaser at Staples even though that store opens at 7:00 AM.
>
> What's my point? Less than an enthusiastic reception and a very
> wide range
> of prices.
>
> Thought you all should be aware.
>
> Regards,
> Manning Stoller
>
>
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