With the recent release of Microsoft's newest potential cash cows, Windows Vista and Office 2007, the company is expecting a wave of upgrades from users seeking the latest functionality. But what if you're not looking for new bells and whistles? What if you want to keep your old operating systems, such as Windows 2000, running as long as possible? Microsoft isn't making it easy for you.
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Member since:2005-07-06
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Windows 2000 was not good with games at the time (compared to Windows 98), everything was geared up for 9x. Windows XP, included a number of changes to better support the games of the time (including the backwards compatibility properties tab). This of course isn't such an issue now, but it was then. NT-Kernal used to be a quite strictly business-only breed.
Member since:2005-08-10
Most people play some 2D video/porn. win2k by default use the old video renderer. winxp or later use video mixing renderer. Old video renderer has quite a lot of limitation, e.g. only 1 concurrent hardware accelerated output. Although software can choose to use VMR explicitly, most DShow video players just let windows to decide. So winxp's directx support is indeed superior in a (artificial) sense.
Member since:2006-11-18
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This advantage makes it best Windows to run under qemu or other emulation/virtualization software like xen, win4bsd or vmware.
Sorry but, last time I checked, you needed to recompile the OS you wanted to run under Xen, and AFAIK you can't recompile any Windows OS.
And people, in a few days Win2K will be more than seven years old, that's a pretty long support window don't you think? I know, this sucks (here at work we'll have to move a few hundreds of workstations to XP) but it was going to happen, sooner or later.
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2005-11-10
It's honestly a shame. Before 2K3, Windows 2000 is Microsoft's best operating system. It's lean, fast, runs on just about any hardware (Works fine on P166), and has all the power under the hood of XP (sans better DX support).
If Microsoft wanted to make an OS that businesses would buy in the millions, then they should have kept everything that made 2000 good, and just expanded on it (reliability, low hardware). Instead they try and force the media hungry Vista into a market that has no interest in it. I suppose it's only a sign of a company telling others what they want, instead of listening to their customers.