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

Baron Grazic · #1 November 28th, 2003, 02:23 AM

I've have 98SE, W2K & XP on different machines, and Win98 is the most stabilist. I never turn that machine off, just standby, do almost all my work on it, and I haven't had to rebuild it since I first built the computer 5 years ago.

W2K would be my second choice. Once you patch the security holes, it just runs what it is told to run.

XP seems better for running games, for the simple fact that you can tell the game to run in different operating system mode. ie. Run this game in Win95 mode. But the first thing I also do, it remove allthe 'user friendly' crap M$ put on it. Make it look like 98, and away you go.

Not sure where the information came from about W2K not being supported or sold. Microsoft's "hard drop-dead dates" for Win2000 are:-
No non-security hotfixes after 1/1/2004
No paid Online support after 1/1/2005

Fyron · #2 November 28th, 2003, 02:28 AM

You have been extremely lucky with Win 98 if you have been running it for 5 years without rebooting it.

If you don't install and uninstall stuff all the time, there is rarely ever a need to reinstall Windows. I only installed 2000 once and used it for nearly 2 years (with the occasional reboot) before going XP.

[ November 28, 2003, 00:30: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

Baron Grazic · #3 November 28th, 2003, 03:02 AM

Oops, perhaps I should have said 'rarely' turn it off, instead of never.

JayBdey · #4 November 28th, 2003, 05:54 AM

I would like to know how it has managed to "phone home" without an internet connection. Unless all XP machines came with a satellite up link to allow wireless communication with the MS mother ship.

Fyron · #5 November 28th, 2003, 06:38 AM

What exactly did you install? XP Home? XP Pro? XP Pro Enterprise edition? Some of them don't have the activation IIRC (the ones designed for businesses setting up large networks with lots of PCs...).

JayBdey · #6 November 28th, 2003, 06:40 AM

I will have to ask the friend that I got it from. He works at a large company and I asked him if he could "borrow" an XP disc for me.

I know it is not XP home, it is XP pro or some variant of it.

Fyron · #7 November 28th, 2003, 07:13 AM

Then it was probably a copy licensed under an enterprise license... which makes it illegal for you to have installed it.