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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Steve Lee who wrote (27949)	2/18/2000 6:25:00 AM
From: QwikSand	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

In your dreams, Steve. I feel sorry for the few IT guys that will lose their jobs by attaching any significance at all to those numbers. They will put their companies in a hole if they pay attention to an instantaneous snapshot of a never-ending game of leapfrog. That stuff is sheer marketecture. After fooling around with Win2000 Pro for these few hours (once I got past that lovely BSOD on install), the suspense is gone and the obvious supervenes. M$ had it right the first time: Windows 2000 is just NT5. Some more features, a little faster on some things, slower on others, some bugs fixed, some others introduced. It's no world beater, just release N+1. Microsoft appears to have done a mediocre job of whipping their IHV's into getting drivers ready for launch even after years of slippage, probably because they kept changing the driver interfaces till the last second. For me, it's mostly that some peripherals work that didn't work before, it turns off my monitor, and some applications that worked before have stopped working. The things that I notice most are the little annoyances, like the fact that M$ decided that when you click on a menu bar item, the new default GUI action should be to have the menu fade in, the most irritating thing in the world. Yes you can find some check box and turn it off, but isn't it great to know they probably had three kids working on that feature for a year and probably added a video interface to support it just to hassle all the IHV's? Plus guess what: they've added drop shadows to many of the arrows and whatnot that serve as mouse pointers! Such a bargain! Have you ever had the experience of sitting down in front of a Linux machine and, without having to do any objective measurement, subjectively it just feels faster? Well W2K just feels slower. On the good side, applications that don't depend on special hardware have all worked. My 1394 video capture program stopped working...no W2k driver yet. I'm in a position to restore my system to NT 4.0 in less than 10 minutes, thanks to Powerquest's Drive Image and a few utilities and scripts. I will wait a few more days to decide whether it's worth it. So far, I like my monitor powering down, and I like the feeling that I can finally buy a USB gadget. That's it...that's the whole enchilada. The rest is noise for me (I don't run a server). Basically another Microsoft $100 service pack. The hype around W2K is 100% bogus. I'm sure M$ will make a ton of money off it anyway. --QS