Re: Is it worth upgrading to XP Pro ?
From: Major Malfunction (MajMalfunky_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/14/04
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Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 08:54:40 -0500
"Ben" <zzz@zzz.zzz> wrote in message
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> Kevin Lawton wrote:
>
> > I've been using Windows 2000 Pro for almost four years now and it is
'okay'.
> > Not perfect, by any means, but quite okay for general use.
> > My applications are just 'general use' - internet & e-mail, office apps
like
> > word & excel, SQL server 2000 database, photo editing, CD burning, etc.
> > Nothing very esoteric, just 'bread and butter' work.
> > Reliability and efficiency are what I like to see, fancy 'eye candy'
like
> > animated icons and screen savers are of no interest and for the sake of
> > efficiency I'd rather be without them.
> > So, the question is: is it worth paying the cost and going to the
trouble of
> > upgrading to Windows XP Pro or should I just stick with Windows 2000 ?
What
> > do I stand to gain - or lose ?
> > TIA
> > Kevin.
> >
> >
> >
> I think it is not in a hurry for you to upgrade to XP.
> MS offers online and phone call services for 5 years,
> so don't give up your rights now.
What is Win2K doing / not doing that is making you wanting to switch? If you
are satisfied with your interface with Win2K, stay with it.
I use both operating systems and can tell you they have a different feel to
them. XP does a lot of hand holding and hiding a lot of choices. WinXP
offers more of a, by comparison, no frills approach and, in my personal
opinion, is much better suited to business use.
This is not to say WinXP Pro is a bad choice for business, but with all that
it tries to do, I see it better adapted to gaming than running business
applications. This is my personal opinion, and I will not take offense if
you differ from it. I do use XP Pro on two different PCs in a domain network
(mandatory as XP Home will not join a domain) and have absolutely no
problems with networking or running apps. I've never had any memory or CPU
usage problems with either XP machine, but there seems to be more overhead
with XP because of all it wants to manage. Lastly, I am more at home with
Win2K interface because I've run that interface longer.
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