Re: 2000 Pro - Xp Pro

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>
> More patches is good thing? More patches mean more vulnerabilities. Win2k
> has a two year lead on XP, meaning that all of the bugs have been worked
> out.
>

Obviously more patches signify lesser stability to begin with, but the
support issue is relevant I guess. New problems that see the day with W2K
will not have patches available when MS quits supporting it for good. And It
seems that is what is about to happen now. Didn't MS already try to pull the
plug on it a year ago as well but then extended the support period? I just
read on ZdNet the other day about a new Windows vulnerability affecting Win2K
at 'kernel level' or or something serious like that, for which there was no
present knowledge about how to cure. Something about IP insecurity, a foreign
company found it out and reported to MS but none will tell more until they
know how to go about fixing it.

So continued support is kind of relevent I would guess.

Then I think a couple of you underestimate the importance some of us users
give to appearance... I know you'll probably think that's really nerdy,
what's important is how well it works. Yes, but since XP is far from crashing
all over the place all the time, it's a bit too simple just to say stability
is the most important thing. Some of us may prefer too work in a more
aesthethic environment that we customized ourselves to the price of slight
occasional instability. Not everyone is running servers, and need to keep
100% functioning systems, you know.

That's my 2 cents.

/p
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