Karaoking

[marklwood]

Originally Posted by Deeter

Why do people keep suggesting this as a solution? Microsoft is abandoning further support or updates of XP as early as June of 2009.

Deeter, you are listening to the market hype that Microsoft wants you to hear. The fact of the matter is they will follow what the market demands. For example, I had to drag out an old machine for a project that required a floppy drive, bi-directional printer port, and Win98. This was just a couple of weeks ago. When I got online to download the software, I got windows updates pushed to me even though they "stopped supporting" Win98 July 11th 2006. That date was even considered "extended support" that only included critical bug fixes. So with that as a measure of when they actually stop support, I would assume we should be good until sometime in 2012. I would hope that we could get a decent replacement operating system by then.

[marklwood]

I guess I should have read the rest of the thread before I replied. Sorry for the re-hash.

[marklwood]

I just ran across an interesting article about this very thread.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/15547...ml?tk=rss_news

[ddouglass]

Good article Mark. As usual Microsoft continues to shoot themselves in the foot. When NT came out I couldn't wait to upgrade and get away from 98. When 2000 came out it was the same thing. Again with XP, but not until after the first SP. With Vista I still won't touch it. We'll see what Windows 7 looks like and how it acts when it comes out.

[madjim- with the Lord]

Originally Posted by ddouglass

When 2000 came out it was the same thing.

Years ago at the TV staion I worked for, I installed windows 2000 on one machine and had nothing but problems, I was to scared to use ME. Did you find 2000 to be stable Dale?

I agree, good article Mark, thanks for posting a link to it.

Jim

[ddouglass]

Used it for a number of years on USAF network on several thousand computers with no major problems. Then we went to NT which was even better.

[madjim- with the Lord]

Originally Posted by ddouglass

Used it for a number of years on USAF network on several thousand computers with no major problems. Then we went to NT which was even better.

I bought a copy of NT but never got to use it. The 16bit pro sound card I was using did not have a driver that would work so I had to abandone it. I did fine with Windows 95 eventually moving to Windows 98 then to XP. I'm glad to hear you didn't have the problems I experience with 2000.

My engineering partner LOVED Windows NT.

Jim