>
>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.
Whatever.
>
>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.
What kinda world is that? The real world? I live in the same world
and wouldn't touch the Dark Side with a 10 foot pole. Still, I'm far
from starving.
>
>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!)
Might have something to do with MS copying and pasting the entire BSD
tcp stack into W2K.
Marten
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