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The Bottom Line I personally urge you to get an alternative OS, but right now your best new choice is, funnily, Windows 2000 Professional.
My personal advice: don't buy the Windows operating system. They are buggy, expensive and weakly compatible with hardware. Instead, get a system with Windows (the cheapest version you can get) pre-installed and then get Linux or another alternative operating system. If you have a Mac, use that or Linux. But if it does come down to choosing a Windows operating system, go with 2000. Microsoft says that Windows 2000 is a Business operating system (it is supposedly to ME what NT is to 95/98) but I'm sure a lot more people than Microsoft expected are buying this for home use. That's because they were disappointed by ME, and so was Microsoft - its sales were incredibly slow. It was a lot like 98, and what it did change, it changed wrong. There were software compatibility problems and in the end, nothing worked out the way it was planned. That's where XP comes in - originally "Whistler", it was supposedly more compatible with software, and "Microsoft's biggest change to their OS since Windows 95". Apparently, it's a completely different operating system. A couple of die-hard PC user friends of mine (one of them is not so friendly, though) recently beta-tested it, and their word for it was "crap". Still, PC Magazine liked it. Most people will tell you that Windows 2000 is the "more serious operating system" over Windows Millenium Edition. It offers more tools, and most prominently, better stability. Like all business editions of operating systems, it was designed to not crash as often as the home edition. And it seems to deliver that promise. It still crashes, but, overall, it's pretty stable. Software for Windows 95 & 98, for the most part, work with Windows 2000. It's unlikely your software won't, and if it doesn't, know that this is a rarity, rather a commonplace occurence. Overall, however, 2000 is a lot like previous versions of Windows, unlike XP, which is played up as some revolutionary, totally new OS chock full of ideas. I give it 2 weeks.  |
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