[WriteLog] Open Letter to Wayne - Networking

[Jim McDonald]

It's pretty popular among the AR-Cluster sysops.  I have three computers
here at home, two on XP Home and the cluster box on 2000.  At my company
Windows 2000 machines are being replaced with XP machines are they need to
be replaced.

Jim N7US

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob McCormick W1QA" <writelog at W1QA.com>
To: <WriteLog at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 6:52 AM
Subject: RE: [WriteLog] Open Letter to Wayne - Networking


> Based on Microsoft's life cycles, you might
> want to consider making the break at Windoz 2000.

I wonder how many individuals' (e.g., non-business) systems
are running Windows 2000 Professional?  My observation had
been that W2K Pro was pretty much deployed in a business
environ but not that many end-users adopted it.

FWIW ...

25 Oct 2001 = release date of Windows XP to the public

That's almost 3 years ago!

Very soon (next month or two) we will have:

Windows XP SP2 (aka Service Pack 2)

IMO, this should really be called Windows 2004 ...
(or whatever the marketing people would like to call it)

There are a lot of changes coming - good changes.
But enough changes that I would look at this as
a pretty good revision of the operating system.
Improvements in security - greatly affecting
how network software works.

(One could view this similarly to what Microsoft
did with Windows 95 A & B, or Windows 98 / 98 SE.)

If I were developing something for today ...
I won't even consider Windows 2000 at this point.
(If it were to work on that platform, cool ...
but I wouldn't go out of my way to make it a
design requirement or do testing on it.)

my 0.02 worth ...

Bob W1QA

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