>How the Dark Side gets even more control over lemmings and stupid people:
>
>http://public.wsj.com/sn/y/SB1000938788538155920.html
Frankly, if people with PCs want to have an even nicer XPerience, all they
need to do is run WINDOWS 2000 PRO. None of the bloat of XP, it can use XP
drivers and whatnot because basically XP *is* a prettied-up 2K Pro, and it
needs less RAM to be happy...Pro will be fine with 128MB of RAM. Pro will
not demand "activation." Pro will run most Win32 programs.
I suspect that W2K Pro will start to be harder to find in software stores
once XP hits the shelves. Not to worry, go to your local "computer fair"
and get an OEM copy.
I like it. In 6 months of school studying Microsoft networking, I have
never bluescreened any machine under my direct control under 2K. I have
seen stop errors, but those were usually problems with someone taking a
removable hard drive from one machine and putting it into another machine
that is radically different from the one the drive was formatted/installed
under. I have seen hardware-related BSODs, that is, something blows out in
the computer and 2K squeals about it. But outside of those cases, I have
yet to see a BSOD. And thing is, my school is notorious for using the
cheapest possible parts for their student computers.
My heart still belongs to Mac. But my head and wallet told me I'd better
get some Microsoft certification. I'm only one test away from my MCSE 2K.
I'm looking to get into a career in teaching people about their computers.
And you can bet I will be teaching people that in the Real World, it is
best to not put all your eggs in one OS basket. You don't say so when you
are taking a Microsoft test, of course, but those tests don't resemble the
Real World anyway and everyone knows it.
2K is the best MS OS yet for interoperability... Services for Macintosh is
way better under 2K than NT4, and since 2K uses open standards like TCP/IP,
LDAP, Kerberos and L2TP/IPSec to communicate, share info and keep secure,
interoperability with Linux, FreeBSD and other xNIX flavors is great. This
means MacOS X will be at home in a heterogeneous network with 2K too. (I
know that Microsoft "embraced and extended" a lot of those standards, but
not enough to prevent interoperability!)
Anyway, that's just the way I see it.
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