>>I'd say, don't waste your money unless/until you find that the software
you want requires XP.
So far, _everything_ runs on W2K, even when it says "requires XP". Now, I'm
certain that Microsoft will have _something_ that won't work (by design)
since they have an interest in selling the latest/greatest(tm) OS. But
everyone else wants to sell to the mass market, and there's more W2K
machines out there than XP in corporate America. Lots of ID departments
locked in on W2k as a standard and MS has not been able to get them to
change... Even though they charge them more money for W2K.
This is one reason that MS is concerned about Linux. W2K is not just "good
enough", it is preferred by many of us. Apple's OS/X is far better on the
desktop. Linux is making inroads on the server, and MS is caught between
the two. With IBM, HP and other "big iron" guys supporting Linux, IT
departments are starting to realize they can move to Linux and have a single
OS on PC-based servers and big iron. And a _lot_ of that stuff applies to
OS/X. No OS has ever dominated for very long, and MS knows Windows will get
replaced at some time. Thus they are wise to explore a stable OS that is,
by nature, cross platform. Otherwise they will be forced to develop a
BSD-based OS, just like Apple did. And Apple has a huge head start.
The Linux/OSX combination is _very_ attractive.
Ken Elliott
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-----Original Message-----
From: slug@nks.net [mailto:slug@nks.net] On Behalf Of Eben King
Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 10:32 PM
To: slug@nks.net
Subject: Re: [SLUG] New Windows Singularity
On Wed, 9 Nov 2005, michael hast wrote:
> Ken Elliott wrote:
>
> >>>windows core code is the same as used in Windows 1.0.
> >
> >Not at all. NT 3.5 was all new code. Nothing from Windows 1.0 was in it.
> >They started adding some Win32 stuff in W2k and XP for program
> >compatibility. I like W2K, but really dislike XP.
> >
> >That being said, I'm really liking FC3 and Debian.
>
> Okay, as a matter of curiosity, what is the functional difference
> between 2k & XP?
Got me. One of the first things I did to the two XP machines that are mine
is turn off all the goofy Fisher-Price UI stuff (it makes navigation by
keyboard more cumbersome), so it at least *looks* like W2K. You can turn
off the graphical login too, so it looks even more like W2K. (It doesn't
appear for me, so the issue hasn't arisen.)
> I have to admit that I've thought of bringing the butterfly back into
> my house for one machine, and I don't want to waste money on XP if 2k
> will be a better choice.
I'd say, don't waste your money unless/until you find that the software you
want requires XP.
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