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Summary: good for gaming
Review: Win2000 has been quite stable... I'm running an Athlon 550 over clocked to 733 with 256 meg RAM and Unreal Tournament constantly locked up under Win98. Under Win2000, it runs rock solid, except once UT did terminate but Windows didn't freeze. It co-exists peacefully with Win98, which comes in handy since I'm unable to find a Yamaha XG midi driver for it. It seems to utilize my 256meg RAM better than win98, I'm able to open a slew of browser windows and Office 2000 docs. The price of entry is a bit steep, but if you're having instability with win98, give it a whirl.
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Summary: It is a very stable OS
Review: Compared with Win98 it is a very stable OS. I haven't had the amount of crashes that I had with Win98 when using tasking programs like Macromedia Dreamweaver. It is a necessity for businesses but if you want a gaming OS, don't use it. I have set up a dual boot system installing Win2000 over Win98. It is very user friendly to set up. Overall this is a good OS.
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Summary: Don't upgrade yet
Review: Windows 2000 is nothing more than NT that has been downgraded for the small time business owner. The only problem is that they rushed it to get it to the market in time and insodoing left a lot of loopholes in the design. The most crippling of which is 2000s lack of hardware compatability. If you are just running a small-time, bare bones server and dont want to spend the big bucks for NT, this is a better choice than 98. Otherwise, wait till the Millenium edition.
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Summary: Good for server not personal!
Review: I am currently running win2k on another system at my place as a server. The new protections, tools, and designs are great for server tasks. However, if you plan to upgrade for personal task--ie, t replace win98, then I would advised you not too since most of your hardware drivers as well as softwares might not be supported by the win2k NT design.
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Summary: Still some work for Microsoft
Review: After a couple days working with my new computer and Windows 2000 some first impressions: The first lockup occured during setup (clean, not over existing) on my new Presario 7940. Two times Windows 2000 did not finish a shut down request saying that an application (only MS Internet Explorer running at that time) is beinig debugged. MS Encarta 2000 does not run under Windows 2000. The application abords with a cryptic error message. All this with every available patch downloaded and installed.Over all Windows 2000 'looks' very nice and has several long missing features. Unfortunately it seems MS did not spent enough time to finalize it.
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Summary: Unbelievable
Review: Windows 2000 Advanced Server is the paramount of today's operating systems. Performance, stability, and ease of use are all included in what I believe to be Microsoft's best product to date. Forget about Linux and Solaris. With Windows 2000, you will leave your competition in the dust.
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Summary: Windows 2000 Server : IIS5 and ADS are excellent
Review: I have used IIS5 and ADSI for programming some tasks which were not possible with NT4. Adding users, creating their home dir and profiles programatically has become a lot easier.This has also meant easy remote administration to me. What I did not like is changing over to NTFS(5) means if I make my active partition NTFS(5), I can not multiboot. I also liked that inspite of built on NT technology Win2K server supports plug-and-play. Third party support is still low (Which I found when my LAN card was not found in HCL)
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Summary: Scarily Good
Review: As someone who has excoriated Microsoft loud and long for crummy, duct-tape-&-baling-wire, *non*-"innovative" software, I must confess in all honesty that Redmond has finally produced an OS I must grudgingly admire. I installed a pre-release version back in September on my Dell desktop and my Dell laptop, and now I've "upgraded" to the final release. Bottom line: --does not crash (yikes!); --recognizes and correctly configures hardware automatically at install; --networks and plays well with friends; --very strong computer management capabilities. Caveats: 1. Do not try to "upgrade" from Win98 or NT4.0; do a clean reformat and install. 2. If you play a lot of games or use any 16-bit app's, take a pass on Win2000. In sum, 20 years later Microsoft may have finally produced an OS worthy of the name; now we must only hope that the 'Net makes them increasingly irrelevant, or they'll continue to be a menace to their industry and, I believe, our society. "Still dual-booting Linux...."
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Summary: Solid
Review: I installed the commercial version on a blank hard drive on a IBM Thinkpad 570 and it installed flawlessly and has run flawlessly. It did a great job recongnizing and configuring the multi-homed network (two PCMCIA network cards from different manufacturers, one to a NT4 server hosted LAN and the other to a CISCO router for ISDN access to work). It also runs faster than Win98SE which used to be on the machine. Good job MS.
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Summary: Something atleast STABLE!
Review: boy, talk about time something that isn't so buggy from MS finals comes out! I use both Windows and Linux, and from my point of view, Linux is way superior. The only good product from Microsoft before Win2000 is uh, I don't remember anymore. It's funny how on MS website they put out reviews like "solid as a rock". althrought it's good that it's stable, but prize... it's bit too outragous. But, if Bill Gates really release the source code for Windows, then maybe Windows might be better.
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