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Originally posted by hybrid3do0rcx
entirely OT but....ive heard that before as well however noone can tell me HOW 2kpro is better? so BDC, come on, i know you can enlighten me. 
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Well, I don't know where to start...
I've been doing this computer stuff for a long time. I used to take a week off work and go to Comdex every year. I ran a successful multi-line Wildcat! BBS before the Internet became popular, yada yada yada. What I'm saying is I'm not a noob when it comes to OS's.
Without putting you to sleep, I'll say that I use what works best. I tried out, but completely skipped Windows 1.0 through 3.11 - they were total POS's IMHO. Win 95 worked pretty good. WinNT 3.0 was better, but didn't support practically any hardware. WinNT 4.0 was a rip-off. Win 98 was an improvement over Win 95. Win 98 SE worked great. Win ME sucks.
Then came W2K. It should have been called NT 5.0. It is a MUCH MUCH MUCH improved WinNT with great hardware support and a Win 98 GUI. W2K rocks! But, after 2 years, Microsoft decided to dump it in favor of XP, which is just a skinned version of W2K, with myriads of problems. XP is pretty, but a definite step down in stability and reliablility. I don't know of any large businesses that have migrated to XP, nor do I think they will any time in the near future; it's just too flakey.
I've tried XP numerous times on old and new equipment alike (as little as a month ago), and it sucks IMHO, not the least of which is Microsoft now wants YOU to pay for bug fixes, et cetera. It's nothing but a cash-cow for them, and Homey don't play that game.
Anyway, without going into further detail, if you want a stable Windows OS, you basically have two choices, Win 98 SE and W2K. I use them both and they both work great.
I'll be glad to furnish you with more links than you would care to read, backing up my claims, but as you said - this is going way OT. Anyway, those are my feelings on the matter...
