On Wednesday 30 January 2008 08:32:36 scott wrote: > Yes and MS quietly extended 98 for a few more years until they came out > with 2000.A much better OS than ME at the time,IMHO.
While Windows 98 SE was the best of the 9x series, I don't think anyone really mourned its passing (I still use it under Qemu). XP would have been hands down a better system except for its obnoxious copy protection. Even so, the stability advantages XP yielded made it a better system. Windows 2000 and ME were released the same year (2000 first, if I remember). 2000 was seen as an update to NT4, not 98. 2000 was the first NT OS to include plug and play, but the conversion from 98 to 2000 required a full reinstall. XP let you upgrade your Windows 9x system directly, although that was probably not a good idea. If there is a "best" Windows candidate, I would vote for Windows 2000. It was relatively light weight, stable, and it offered minimal copy protection. -- Hawaiian Astronomical Society: http://www.hawastsoc.org HAS Deepsky Atlas: http://www.hawastsoc.org/deepsky _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
