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Windows 2000 was a great OS, I preferred it over XP for as long as it was feasible. Back when Windows XP was released, activation was considered quite intrusive
by Maakuth 9y ago
Windows 2000 was a great OS, I preferred it over XP for as long as it was feasible. Back when Windows XP was released, activation was considered quite intrusive in privacy sense and Windows 2000 was the last release without it. Oh have times changed.
- agumonkey 9y agoto the point that whenever I run post win nt machine without theming or compositing I get happy. Seeing that old UX brings all kinds of good memories.
- m0skit0 9y agoActually XP was a slight modification over 2000, specially graphically. Hence the version naming 5.0 and 5.1.
- josteink 9y agoI remember Microsoft held back updates to Windows 2000 to force people to upgrade. I remember USB and wifi support in particular being painful. When I finally had to cave in, I was not happy. How times have changed indeed :)
- digi_owl 9y agoI ran 2k until i wanted to do a hardware upgrade, and the install didn't like the new motherboard (yes i switched the driver on the disk controller). Tried to get XP going, and ran into some complications. Said "fuck this!" and reached for a Linux distro...
- m0skit0 9y agoStill Windows 2000 was more oriented to servers (which btw was the main business for the NT line until XP). You could easily mistake an XP for 2000 if you removed the skinning.
- nickpsecurity 9y agoI removed all the graphical changes for performance reasons on older boxes. People thought it was Windows 2000 as you said.
- Maakuth 9y agoI think situation was kind of the same with Vista and 7. Lots of the groundwork was laid in the first release but the later one was the more polished one that got the big sales.
- m0skit0 9y agoNope, Vista is 6.0 and 7 is, well, 7.0.
- tonyedgecombe 9y agoWindows 2000 + security updates + WiFi support would be my perfect operating system.
- xyproto 9y agoThat sounds pretty close to ReactOS
- wilun 9y agoSecurity updates would only be patches against coding errors and the like, but the architectural security until Vista was defective, and no amount of patches (without changing the OS so much it would have to be considered another one anyway) could fix that.
- franze 9y agoi skipped winXP completly, at the end ran a highly customized version (got it from kazaa and then improved on it). even managed to install lot of winxp only software on 2000 (thx to massive registry editing) then directly to mac.
- digi_owl 9y agoI seem to recall a rumor that the XP activation system came to be because the BSA threatened to exclude Microsoft unless the latter implemented it.
- wilun 9y agoArchitectural security until at least Vista was, hm, let's say weak.