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Old November 27th, 2003, 07:42 AM
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Default Re: OT: Which is better: XP or 2000? > Another Piracy Discussion

Ummm... my school's CS department is still offering Win2k Pro to students. They just updated the group license about a month ago. So it's still being sold.

And as for no more support for the OS, I'm pretty sure that only means major updates. They will have to release security patches and such for some time to come (and in fact I just downloaded a security patch for 2kPro Last week that was dated around Nov 15). I could care less if they don't release any major updates, and don't blame them for not doing so, since they're already approaching their third generation OS removed from 2kPro.
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Old November 27th, 2003, 07:54 AM
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Default Re: OT: Which is better: XP or 2000? > Another Piracy Discussion

I have to be honest, win2k has served me quite well over the years. The only issues I have had with it at ones that deal with my configuration and my AMD/MSI mother board CPU combinations.

Windows XP has also worked well for me. Be sure to turn off both the XP and Win2k instant messaging program, or you will get spammed regularly with window pop ups.
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Old November 27th, 2003, 09:38 AM

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Default Re: OT: Which is better: XP or 2000? > Another Piracy Discussion

if you are wanting compatibility (both HW and SW) get 98SE
if your carefull you can get it fairly stable.

I dont know much about 2000
but others have told me that XP is a little more stable.
I have XP pro on this and its prety good, I still havent looked at tweeking it yet, but I am impressed at the stability, even if I do get some kind of lockup it will usualy sort itself out given half a chance.
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Avoid the problem of stablity all together and just buy a Mac.
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Default Re: OT: Which is better: XP or 2000? > Another Piracy Discussion

PvK, what changes in XP user interface were you talking about? For me, XP looks almost like 98 after a few tweaks (removing the horrible basic interface, disabling Messenger and so on). Of course, with the basic interface, I can understand your problems.

As for old games, it mostly depends on the game in my experience. While Daggerfall runs like a charm on XP (yes, I even managed to play Daggerfall for several hours without a crash on XP), I have quite a few games that refuse to launch when they don't basically crash the whole system. But I would believe the same can be said of 2000 as well.

If given the choice, I would gladly go back to 98SE as soon as possible, as this OS is much simpler and less cumbersome. (And my computer is a bit slow to run XP with ease as well) However, I don't have the Second Edition of 98 and cannot find it anywhere, so I am basically stuck with XP since 98 (first edition) is lacking connection sharing. Either that, or I couldn't make it work, your choice. And I don't recall having much issues with stability back in those days when I used 98 either.
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Connection sharing? Why not just grab an inexpensive router (or hub if your ISP gives you multiple IPs) and be done with it?
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Terran C... WinXP.

The code is updated from win2k.

Both are good OS's And both will run what you need.

But Win2k is getting up there in the years and will be unsupported soon enough. Where Xp still has a few years left in it....

Security... Their both flawed. Its MS. And its open concept.

Accessiblity. Both are good. Except that XP does not have the power user level. Its either all or nothing..

Game Compatibility. Possibly win 2k... But xp will play most games

Stability. Their the same

Anything. XP makes a nice little gaming machine. But win 2k does as well...

At least with win 2k you can install something on your computer hardware side without making the call.
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