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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (48759)	8/26/2000 1:49:44 AM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

charles - I was one of the legion of Win2K beta sites and early in the process there were almost no drivers for the new standards, so I got a lot of opportunity to try NT4 drivers for compatibility. Many older drivers work fine but have the old NT4 problems - for example, they might lock up I/O resources and not release according to the new standards, etc. and so would not pass certification. The change in the driver certification standards, along with the DLL work, were probably the 2 areas which added most to stability and reliability of the OS.

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (48759)	8/28/2000 11:04:34 AM
From: Jordan A. Sheridan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Charles; No need to hold your breath or send Microsoft any money in order to determine the 'readiness' of your hardware and software. You can go to microsoft.com and download the readiness analyser, which will run on your existing machine and return a custom report listing known hardware and software compatibility issues you might encounter when upgrading to Windows 2000. Remember what I said about there not being a conspiracy lurking around every corner... Regards; Jordan