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I've had two different stores tell me that Windows 98 users should wait
for the "Millenium" edition to upgrade; that the current releases are
for NT 4 upgrades and original installs. Can someone please clarify
this? I'm using Win 98 on an HP Pavilion PIII 500 with 128M and I can't wait
to upgrade!
Sherrill Styers
Original message:
>
> Subject: Re: Windows 2000 Professional; MAYBE great news
> Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 13:40:32 -0500
> From: "Patrick White" <simgenie@xxxxxxxx>
> To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> 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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