OSNews > Thread > "RE: You forgot to say" by wrocic

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 11th Nov 2008 20:39 UTC

Back in 1983, 25 years ago, the world was quite different. The market for the home computer - still a fairly new market - was wide open, but Apple was about to make a major splash with its Macintosh. It was also the year in which a company from Redmond first introduced its "Windows" operating system. What is this Windows you speak of?

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RE: You forgot to say

by wrocic on Tue 11th Nov 2008 21:50 UTC in reply to "You forgot to say"

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2008-07-10

Windows 2000 was an excellent system. My employer still uses it over 800 desktops in our workplace.

New guys come in and bitch about XP, and can they have that, but after a day or two, they dont notice the difference

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RE[2]: You forgot to say

by Dryhte on Wed 12th Nov 2008 06:19 in reply to "RE: You forgot to say"

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2008-02-05

Yup, 2k was ok, but don't you think it's a little unsafe to be running an OS that's no longer supported?

Apart from that, I believe it's a pain that it doesn't have its own wifi tools (many 2k wifi drivers don't even support wpa)

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RE[3]: You forgot to say

by PJBonoVox on Wed 12th Nov 2008 16:47 in reply to "RE[2]: You forgot to say"

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2006-08-14

There are third party programs that all you to use WPA on Windows 2000.

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