My 2 cents - having worked with these -- > 1. Outlook 2000 is NOT designed as an upgrade from OE 5.0 After you > setup Outlook 2000, you have to specifically tell it to import all Right - imports are possible - but data loss is equally possible. Upgrades anywhere - Win9x or Linux or [your O/S here] have to be handled carefully with backups (as I found to my cost yesterday, when installing redhat. I lost over 56 megs of files, mostly websites, free perl scripts and archives from assorted mailing lists). Thank heavens for backups > All you have to do is look around a bit before doing something > rash like that guy. 2. NEVER try upgrading from one product to > another without backup. Agreed - always look around more than a bit > 3. Windows 2000 is NOT designed for the average user and an average > system. That was micro$oft's original intention but they gave it up [8< 8< lots of proof that winDOZE 2000 hogs memory >8 >8] I've seen and used it - works like a dream, but it is NT, not common or garden 95 / 98. End users stay off unless reasonably clued. You might also try stripping down the win2k installation, removing lots of useless junk, esp if you want it for a desktop PC (why the hell, I can't imagine - not much diff from 98 for desktop apps, significant upgrade over NT4). This one is neither fish, flesh nor fowl. A weird attempt to integrate a desktop os and a network os, with lots of other junk thrown in. Office 2k is much better than Office 97 though (and more of a memory hog - but what do you expect from MickeyMouseSoft?) ---s Suresh Ramasubramanian 106D, Aditya Enclave, Ameerpet, Hyderabad 500038, India. Phone: +(91-40)3736553/3745398 | eFax: +(1-603)590-5437 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kcircle.com | http://www.angen.net/~pegasus/ Once ... in the wilds of Afghanistan, I lost my corkscrew, and we were forced to live on nothing but food and water for days. -- W. C. Fields, 'My Little Chickadee' -------------------------------------------------------------------- The Linux India Mailing List Archives are now available. Please search the archive at http://lists.linux-india.org/ before posting your question to avoid repetition and save bandwidth.
