"Jack" said in news:%
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come on.....XP is far superior...
XP is not far superior. It is just a little better. I only moved to XP
because I got forced to in building a new system (I had to provide my old
Win2K with my old system to the buyer). There is not much bang for the buck
(in which I mean both money AND my time to train myself to the same level of
proficiency). There is nothing critically needed in XP to require the
upgrade. Fact is, lots of companys aren't wasting their time with the XP
upgrade because costs are too great for little benefit (most of which is
perceived rather than real). New licenses to buy, installing and migrating
data, training users, training tech support, it all costs money (and time is
money, too).
Yeah, XP is a tad faster to load than 2000, but since I leave my computer up
all the time (and simply use Standby mode for power savings) then that
advantage is irrelevant. The changes in the GUI are minimal and often just
superfluous. The added utilities might be handy but again are superfluous
since many equal functions have been around as freeware for a long time. No
one making movies as a job is going to bother with Movie Maker. XP is not
more stable. System Restore is flaky so you had better still rely on your
backups and/or disk images for restoring your system (which is what you
should've been doing for 2000, too). XP isn't any more adept at handling
hung processes. I didn't have applications that only ran on XP and wouldn't
run under 2000. After getting stuck with XP, I had to waste time learning
what it added or changed, like having to use "control userpasswords2" since
the "User Accounts" applet is crippled (it won't show Administrator once
another admin account has been defined). Oooh, I can select a pretty
picture to show alongside my account name in the Welcome screen ... which I
don't use anymore since I configured XP to use the standard Ctrl-Alt-Del
login screen (which is what you get anyway when logging onto a domain since
the Welcome screen only works when setup in a workgroup).
If I hadn't been able to include part of the cost of getting XP with my new
computer (which I built), I wouldn't have surrendered 2000 with my old
system that I sold off. I would've made the buyer get their own copy of
whatever OS they wanted.
