Another alternative? (was:...XP...) Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 10:02 am Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by gewg_ (3943 messages posted) Arminius wrote: |[...]have you considered installing Windows 2000? | |On the plus side: |2) Runs better on older hardware than WinXP. | This assumes that he looked at the XP Hardware Compatibility List and already confirmed that all his devices *are* supported under XP. I have my doubts on that--re: "supported" and re: "looked". The fact is, the device in question *may not* work under Win2000. |3) There is NO product activation. | That's the big one. It's MS's last product without that nonsense. |On the down side: |1) Microsoft will stop issuing patches for it next year. | Heh. Wishful thinking. |Overall, I'd say Windows 2000 has a few good years left in it. | I wouldn't say that at all. Here are the facts: When a security hole was revealed in Win9x weeks before M$'s stated EoS date, M$ simply dropped support for Win9x early when they knew they would actually have to expend some effort to close the hole. In a similar move which has been widely reported due to its callousness, M$ has ALREADY decided to stop patching Win2000 (most of a year before its stated EoS). from the Usenet Archive -- Terry Porter |2) A growing number of third party software vendors are dropping support for it. | Yup. When you look at the list of things that no longer run under W2k (or NEVER DID), is only slightly better than 9x--and both lists grow weekly. |3) Second hand CDs are not cheap. | Despite my playful chiding of the OP earlier in this thread (that Commie), I do not advocate giving money for software. I have already mentioned Gratis and Libre (Free Software). Anyone with a BitTorrent client can also get any of this unsupported M$ stuff without financially supporting a fundamentally corrupt business environment. (Paying for abandonware seems immoral to me--not to mention dumb.) Written in response to: re: Will the end of XP support, end the code nuisance ? (Arminius: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 at 5:16 pm) Responses to this message: re: Another alternative? (was:...XP...) (Arminius: Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 9:22 pm) re: Another alternative? (was:...XP...) (Arminius: Saturday, September 26, 2009 at 8:53 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Will the end of XP support, end the code nuisance ? (Alan: Wed, Sep 16, 2009, 1:56 pm) re: Will the end of XP support, end the code nuisance ? (Steve: Wed, Sep 16, 2009, 2:50 pm) re: Will the end of XP support, end the code nuisance ? (Alan: Wed, Sep 16, 2009, 3:13 pm) re: Will the end of XP support, end the code nuisance ? 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(gewg_: Wed, Sep 16, 2009, 5:14 pm) re: Will the end of XP support, end the code nuisance ? (Alan: Wed, Sep 16, 2009, 5:20 pm) re: Will the end of XP support, end the code nuisance ? (gewg_: Wed, Sep 16, 2009, 3:36 pm) re: Will the end of XP support, end the code nuisance ? (Alan: Wed, Sep 16, 2009, 3:55 pm) re: Will the end of XP support, end the code nuisance ? (Arminius: Wed, Sep 16, 2009, 5:16 pm) re: Will the end of XP support, end the code nuisance ? (Arminius: Wed, Sep 16, 2009, 5:19 pm) re: Will the end of XP support, end the code nuisance ? (gewg_: Wed, Sep 16, 2009, 5:25 pm) re: Will the end of XP support, end the code nuisance ? (Arminius: Wed, Sep 16, 2009, 6:20 pm) re: Will the end of XP support, end the code nuisance ? (gewg_: Wed, Sep 16, 2009, 6:41 pm) Another alternative? (was:...XP...) (gewg_: Thu, Sep 17, 2009, 10:02 am) re: Another alternative? (was:...XP...) (Arminius: Thu, Sep 17, 2009, 9:22 pm) re: Another alternative? (was:...XP...) (gewg_: Thu, Sep 17, 2009, 10:40 pm) re: Another alternative? (was:...XP...) (Arminius: Sat, Sep 26, 2009, 8:53 pm) re: Another alternative? (was:...XP...) (gewg_: Sun, Sep 27, 2009, 2:05 pm) re: Another alternative? (was:...XP...) (Arminius: Sun, Sep 27, 2009, 5:00 pm) re: Another alternative? (was:...XP...) (gewg_: Sun, Sep 27, 2009, 11:38 pm) re: Will the end of XP support, end the code nuisance ? (Alan: Wed, Sep 16, 2009, 5:03 pm) An OS that doesn't require activation (was:...XP...) (gewg_: Wed, Sep 16, 2009, 6:46 pm) re: An OS that doesn't require activation (was:...XP...) (Alan: Wed, Sep 16, 2009, 7:27 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum