on 17/11/02 10:21 am, Richard Kenward at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> NT 4 in it's whole life span and of course it's still going totals I
> think 5 in about as many years and Win2K is up to 3 is it in three
> years?
Morning Richard,
Don't want to get into platform wars here but...Since Win2K is built on NT,
I would add the two so the total would equal 9 (I seem to remember SP6
coming out...but don't quote me on that). The relationship between OS X and
Jaguar is very similar though, IMO, Jaguar is just another update and not
another version of the OS as Apple seem to see it.
>However from my recollection there was never a pressing need to
> run the service packs.
The same goes for Mac OS X. There's no pressing need to update. <G> I have
to say, I have used WinNT and Win2K and like both of them but I like OS X a
whole lot better.
> The idea of running ones business on an operating system that's still in
> beta seems rather risky and at best rather time consuming from the posts
> about it here.
OS X has been out of beta for a long, long time. There's no need to apply
the updates, as I said above. Just read the info that comes with it and if
you think you will benefit, apply it. I apply them as they're announced
because I have broadband and the process is automated. I just click on
Software Update in System Preferences.
I wish I'd kept an article where a VERY senior MS personnel said that Win2K
is the most stable platform for running mission critical operations. He went
onto say that whereas Win2K only crashes once every 99 years, WinNT crashes
99 time every year (I've made up the figures since I can't remember them but
the gist behind them is the true). Go figure...<G>
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