OS era is closing

Enjoy Windows 2000? I do. Straightforward operating system that uses a nominal amount of resources and just keeps on giving. Before all the XPNazis start up, let it be said I have no problem with XP except that the authentication code sucks. If I buy software, it becomes my property. Therefore, if I put it on my personal machines that's my business. Well, XP just isn't a true purchase. Very conditional. It also requires mucho memory. Both of these operating systems are based on the NT5 kernel and have many things in common. My experience in the field finds Windows 2000 very stable compared to XP Home. Yes, XP Pro is worth the extra money. A really important part of owning a machine running XP is to be sure and let it do the updates. Also, run good spyware and virus protection. And please defragment at least once a month.

The machine being used to post this will have run the same install of Windows 2000 for three years sometime next month. At the same time, my laptop has run XP for two years without any major problems. It also dual boots into Linux SuSE. Anyway, Microsoft has pulled the automatic update capability from their Windows Update site for Windows 2000. Updates are still supported, but you have to check periodically. This is "writing on the wall." Microsoft is doing everything possible to force XP on all of us. So get ready to bow down before the Gates machine or start looking into alternatives like FreeBSD or Linux.

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"As long as they are going to steal it [software], we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade."
-Bill Gates