Slowly, slowly, Windows 2000 is being assigned to the scrapheap of obsolescence. More and more progam upgrades are no longer able to run on this venerable OS, the most notable (for me) being the Canon photo suite and as of today, Zone Alarm.
I have upgraded a two of my computers to XP over the past year to accomodate these changes; I may do another. It's a shame I have to make this change. I like Windows 2000, it's been the OS I've used for the past six years or so, and it has done everything I needed it to up until now. There's little in XP that's any better; it's not faster and is more of a memory hog. (Vista I will skip entirely, too many horror stories and my own experience reveals it to be bloatware of the most bloated kind.)
As I have a hardware firewall and some very old computers that act as little more than file servers, I'll probably keep Windows 2000 running on those. It does the job. Linux is also an option here. But I have become fond of 2000, it is wonderfully stable and reliable. Even in coming years, I might keep it running on one machine for old time's sake.
2000 was (is) nice. First reliable OS I remember.These days I have a huge, noisy tractor of a tower PC standing in a remote place of the house with XP on it. For my daily activities I use a MacBook pro.
Time for you to go over to an os that will not give you grief. An os that is stable, fast, efficient and gives so much pleasure in operation that you would have to try it to see what I mean. I ditched Windows a year ago and have never looked back. I'm running Apple's mac OSX leopard on my Apple Macbook. It's stunning, as are the graphics, music, Apple's own 'office suite' – called "Pages" – very good suite indeed! (but it also accepts and runs the version of Windows Office Suite, written for the Apple Macbook OSX).Come on Richard, make the change and ditch the hassle of Windows – Because you're worth it :DLokuMac :yes:
Thanks for that tip, Allan. 🙂
I wouldn't recommend loading a MacOS on a homebuilt PC. I haven't tried it myself, but everyone I know who has claim that things work very slow.
Thanks for your comments, Allan & Loku.I use a Mac PowerPC at work running OS X, and I agree that it is an outstanding OS. Nonetheless, it is not more stable than 2000 or XP (or Linux) in my experience – they are all very stable OSes that occasionally lock up or stumble (usually in response to some hardware change).I build my own computers. Up until now, that has meant using Microsoft or Linux operating systems; I haven't looked into loading OS X on a home-built machine – I shall have to check that out. My PC games are Windows-specific though, and to play them I need to continue with XP.
Richard, The Macbook laptops – those released since last year – have an Intel chip. I believe it is regarded as 'superior' in performance to the PPC chip. It certainly made more things possible, performance wise, for Apple. You will know, OSX is a derivative of Unix, being a unix bsd variation developed by Apple. You should certainly give OSX, on an apple macbook laptop, a go, if you can do so. It's not really recommended to load OSX into a non-Apple pc because of variance in the architecture, graphic card, drivers and so on and any attempt to do so will – in very experienced hands like yours and Allan's – mean the system will run but at a slow speed and will certainly not give the performance that is achieved in its native environment on the Macbook. Of course, if you can home-build a 'clone apple mac' and duplicate everything inside a Macbook then there's no problem :)Alan, thanks for your comment – I think I have covered that in my reply to Allan now?LokuMacBookMan :up:
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Thanks, Loku – I should introduce you to my boss; she shares an equal love of Apple! 🙂
Just as a little supplement, I was looking at laptop computers on the internet last week and the models I saw that were loaded with Vista were being advertised as coming with a "free Windows XP downgrade.":lol: Nobody likes Vista. Except for my friend Sean, who is an IT professional and says that Vista is more of a network OS. Actually, I think it's just more of a Microsoft keeping the profits rolling in OS.
A sad upgrade story. My heart goes out to them and to their families.
😆 I agree with you there, Edward. I, too, have seen the downgrade option and it is still easy to buy Windows XP from retail outlets despite it being 'officially' discontinued.One of my co-workers told me the horror story of how her son, seduced by the (illusory) promises of Vista, attempted to upgrade both their home computers and lost all the data on both. (She did not tell me if she was well backed-up, and I did not ask!)
A sad upgrade story. My heart goes out to them and to their families.I used Windows since the days when I was a brunette and even before that time I worked in a company that had a Honeywell 8000 mainframe that took up an entire floor length. I had a dumb terminal on my desk with a baud rate that was so slow I used to do the crossword after I had pressed keys, because there was that much time between a "run" in the process transaction time. Let me fast forward through the 70s, 80s, 90s and then right up to 2007, November to be exact. I bought an Apple Macbook and junked windows. I've never looked back. This brilliant – yes it really is, do try it and experience the speed and ease of operation and sheer satisfaction in not having any hassle – OSX operating system, a derivate of unix, and now released developed up to Apple's OSX 'Leopard' upgrade, not only leaves Vista in the slow lane, in every respect, but outpaces and out performs WindowsXP – and I used to think that WindowsXP was only half-bad, compared to all its forebears. I know some folk smile (snigger while at same time cussing their Vista) at Apple users, but in my case I used Windows from almost the first day Billy Gates got it onto the business market and then used it over decades. I'm not some silly goofy techie nerd (heyyy.. who thought I was?) who is trying to introduce folk to an obscure OS on a weird pc called by the strange name of Apple. I have business experience going back a long way and the only reason I don't keep a weblog talking about IT and business is because poetry is more fun :)Go Apple! Go Apple! Unix bds OSX rools! 😀
Apple is getting even more proprietary than Microsoft these days. I was looking into the possibility of getting an iPod Touch, and in order to see the add-on apps for it I had to download the whole iTunes thing, which took almost 30 minutes to load and install even with my fast cable internet. And even then I haven't been able to now delete all aspects of it from my system. That kind of bullshit is why I wouldn't go with Apple no matter how good their OS is. I'll stick with XP. And get a Smasung Instinct or something, which doesn't involve anything to do with Apple.
😆 Loku, it's easy tell that you are in love! 😀
It's tech. So maybe it's more like Evil vs. Evil? 😆
"That kind of bullshit is why I wouldn't go with Apple no matter how good their OS is. " tut tut Ed.. don't knock the Apple macbook til you have tried it m'boy :Dwhen you have had your conversion (cue Choir ) – and I will personally baptise you to rid you of the Windows Evil – you truly will never go back :yes:
Good point, Edward, and a major reason why I stick with pre-Vista Windows. Related to this, I don't like digital right management systems, and Apple is stronger on those than the older Microsoft products. Vista, by all accounts, is a DRM hell.
King Kong vs. Godzilla!
:lol:Aquaman vs. Aguavelva.I'm sure Aquavelva would win.
no, it's more like Upheavil vs Aprevival 😆
Wonder Bread vs Wonder BraI'm changing sides:)
Wonder Woman vs. Wonder Bread.Okay, I'm out of here. 🙂
Lets hear it for Wonder Woman :p:lol:
LMAO.I'll change with ya. :up: :up:
Hey now…! 😆
Changing sexes more like! :D:lol:
Oh Mr Darcy! 😀
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