I remember way back then. I was the sole person supporting a school with ~600 computers. I went with NT for all teacher workstations for one simple reason: stability. Windows 95 and 98 were horribly unstable. NT saved me a ton of grief, at the cost of some grief in other areas, plug and play, usb drives weren't all that common, but numerous different devices were starting to become an issue. Win2k came out and saved me considerable headaches.
Win2k and NT ran on roughly the same footprint, and in my experience Win2K outperformed NT at the same RAM levels (machines I spec'ed back in 1999 had 128 MB of RAM). XP had issues with that small amount of RAM. On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Jeff Brown <[email protected]>wrote: > Seems to me like a LOT of the issues then were timing. Didn’t XP release > like the day after most folks starting getting “comfortable” with 2K? I > didn’t really like 2000. Had too much NT for me, but that’s just me. I > think I remember a lot of ANGST back then about MS cranking out OS’s simply > to build revenue.**** > > ** ** > > *From:* Jonathan Link [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Thursday, March 08, 2012 10:33 AM > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Win 8 CP - Initial thoughts?**** > > ** ** > > Alright then. I just think you'll find you're in the minority of people > who think 2000 wasn't good or great. **** > > **** > > As an aside, I remember when XP came out, people called it Windows Legos > edition. People moved to XP because MS stopped updating 2000 and it wasn't > a bad upgrade, mainly a change in look and feel, unlike Vista, which > created all kinds of headaches much beyond look and feel.**** > > **** > > > > **** > > On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 11:19 AM, James Rankin <[email protected]> > wrote:**** > > Got it in one, I don't. It's like the fact I hate VW Golfs, they may have > loads of things people can reel off that are great, but I still can't stand > them. > > Anyway, I put "not so good" because aside from the fact I didn't like it, > it was quickly superseded by 2003/XP. And putting AD as a feature really > only applies to those running domains. I was speaking merely to a > perception of it for "how people found it to use". > > And if that Metro-abortion is anything to go by, I'll hate that too. But > I'll reserve judgement till after I get a chance to play with it and let my > initial "where have things moved to" frustration pass by. > > Besides, moving on, I've said all I want to about this, it's all just my > opinion, etc. , etc. **** > > ** ** > > On 8 March 2012 16:12, Steven M. Caesare <[email protected]> wrote:**** > > Well now you can have mine weather you want them or not:**** > > **** > > - Vastly improved GUI (bye bye ProgMan & FileMan)**** > > - Plug-N-Play**** > > - Power Management (you can finally use this thing on a laptop)**** > > - AD**** > > - MMC**** > > - EFS**** > > - Dynamic Disks**** > > - Fat32 support**** > > - USB support**** > > - UDF support (DVDs!)**** > > - WFP**** > > - WMI**** > > - WDM introduced (Finally Win2K device driver development became an equal > citizen for developers)**** > > - Quotas**** > > -Legit DirectX**** > > - WSH**** > > - Group Policy**** > > -Offline Files**** > > -RDP/Terminal services in base edition**** > > -DFS**** > > **** > > **** > > While each new version of Windows has a laundry-list of new features, and > there are a bunch of other ones in Win2K I didn’t list (MSMQ, etc…), that > subset I just listed are ones that made a significant tangible difference > in the experience to me…. Major improvements.**** > > **** > > And the thing was pretty darn fast and stable. Heck I ran betas 1-3 for a > year or better before release and they were pretty rock solid.**** > > **** > > I’d argue Win2K may have been the single most significant release since NT > was born.**** > > **** > > -sc**** > > **** > > **** > > **** > > **** > > **** > > **** > > **** > > **** > > **** > > **** > > **** > > **** > > **** > > *From:* Rankin, James R [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Thursday, March 08, 2012 10:46 AM**** > > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Win 8 CP - Initial thoughts?**** > > **** > > I thought 2K was sh!t. I've had everyone else's thoughts on this already > though. But I still hate it. :-)**** > > ---Blackberried**** > ------------------------------ > > *From: *"Steven M. Caesare" <[email protected]> **** > > *Date: *Thu, 8 Mar 2012 10:40:08 -0500**** > > *To: *NT System Admin Issues<[email protected]>**** > > *ReplyTo: *"NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected] > >**** > > *Subject: *RE: Win 8 CP - Initial thoughts?**** > > **** > > > 2000 not so good**** > > **** > > Wait, what?**** > > **** > > -sc**** > > **** > > *From:* James Rankin [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Monday, March 05, 2012 3:22 PM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Win 8 CP - Initial thoughts?**** > > **** > > Maybe everyone's just pensive because Microsoft have a habit of following > good OSes with bad. NT4 good - 2000 not so good - XP/2003 good - > Vista/Server 2008 pants - 7/Server 2008 R2 good - 8 ?**** > > On 5 March 2012 20:00, John Hornbuckle <[email protected]> > wrote:**** > > As an enterprise, I’m very concerned about the learning curve, too.**** > > **** > > But at some point, you have to finally break away from the past even if it > involves a steep learning curve. The jump from DOS to Win3x required quite > a bit of retraining, as did the jump from Win3x to Win95. Both of those > were fairly radical moves, and things have stayed relatively static since > Win95 with the old familiar Start button in the lower-left corner.**** > > **** > > Maybe it’s time for a big shift.**** > > **** > > **** > > John**** > > **** > > **** > > **** > > **** > > **** > > *From:* Dan Bartley [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Monday, March 05, 2012 2:46 PM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* RE: Win 8 CP - Initial thoughts?**** > > **** > > I have to say my initial reaction is good for tabs. Like John, I can’t > wait to see some of the new tablets. **** > > **** > > As for Enterprise, I don’t see Win8 making its mark if it stays the > current course. In fact I have a feeling it will go the way of Vista in the > Enterprise. It is too limiting and non-intuitive. It requires a complete > retraining for users and very few IT people have the time for that. The CP > also lacks some key domain support at the moment, such as in the printer > and file sharing areas, so maybe next version I will change my mind. Then > again, they really ditched the enterprise in Windows Phone in my opinion, > so maybe they won’t improve on that.**** > > **** > > Best Regards, > > Dan Bartley**** > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin**** > > > > > -- > "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into > the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' 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