Windows 2000 SP4 rolls out

[Mercator]

A little question. I have Win2K RC2 (not installed, but on disc). Would any of the SP's work on that, and would that be a decent enough alternative for my aging Win98 (disregarding any illegal alternatives)?

But then, I thought it said it only worked 200 days (not sure how that works), and re-installing Windows every 6-7 months isn't really my thing.

[BustaMike]

Asher

[Kuciwalker]

Asher...

[monolith94]

I can't believe I fell for it. God dung it!

[Rasbelin]

Originally posted by Mercator

Would any of the SP's work on that, and would that be a decent enough alternative for my aging Win98 (disregarding any illegal alternatives)?

Most probably not. The RC versions are after all RC versions and e.g. the Whistler beta version of Win XP has ceased to be updatable and it has also expired. So basically installing a release candidate version of Windows 2000 is waste of time and effort. I suggest buying Windows 2000 Pro from your local software retailer and then installing SP4. All currently sold copies of Windows 2000 have SP3 included.

Asher,

I did get the feeling too you had made up those yourself. Especially that text "The best Windows evah!" was very revealing, as we do know how much you think Win XP is the best.

[Mercator]

Originally posted by Asuka
Most probably not. [...]

Yes... Thanks... I'll just stick to Win98 then (I have better things to do with my money).

[Q Classic]

asher, where's winxp on that?

oh, xp would have gone off the chart, mm?

[Kuciwalker]

Well, duh.

Anyone with an ounce of sense realizes that WinXP is the best OS out there

[Asher]

For sure!

It was so large, you couldn't read the other bars.

[Q Classic]

well, since i don't want to work with the gimp right now, i'll just copy some of my own benchmarks:

win2k:
<========>

winxp home:
<==================================>

winxp home sp1:
<===================================>

winxp pro:
<======================================/=/======>

winxp pro sp2:
<======================================/=/===================>

longhorn:

<======================================/=/===================/=/===========================>

[Asher]

Sounds about right to me.

[Kuciwalker]

What's longhorn?

[Asher]

Longhorn is a major overhaul of Windows due in 2005.

It's NT 6.0. It'll have a database-based filesystem (Windows Future Storage, WFS), completely 3D-card based graphics engine (uses video card RAM, DX9-style GPU to do everything so it looks better, runs faster, and uses less system RAM), etc.

Preview here: http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase...eview_2003.asp

[Kuciwalker]

Ah