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

To: DiViT who wrote (55389)	1/19/2001 6:41:06 PM
From: dybdahl	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

I like your attitude... :-) My post was, in fact, written in an ironic sense. I'm sorry that my knowledge of english language is not good enough to let that shine through so that everybody sees that. I found the original post quite fun: "Windows 2000 didn't install, I had problems, it's the best." Hmmm... My irony was built around the problems I had myself. In fact, I have had a lot of problems with Windows 2000: - USB flash card reader doesn't work. Thrown out. - Camera software had to be installed twice. Windows with irrelevant information don't close on disconnect. - My NVIDIA GeForce card didn't work with anything than a beta-version driver. - My Logitech mouse software just said "Not supported on Windows 2000". It did work though, but not as intended. It works now, because Logitech finally made a Windows 2000 driver. - My USB webcam didn't work to start with. It does now, finally. - The software for my HP OfficeJet T65 (parallel port) does not survive hibernation. I have to shutdown every time. But I do like HP, and can only recommend buying HP. - Microsoft Internet Explorer is no longer able to download attachments from Yahoo! Mail. It also crashes all the time. I had to switch to the Opera browser for that. In fact, this text is written using the Opera browser. - Sometimes the Explorer user interface including the task bar just hangs. I have no idea why. I guess it's time for a harddisk format and reinstallation. - Initially I forgot to limit the network card to half duplex, so it ran 100Mbps full duplex, which gave an extremely lousy performance. After switching to half duplex I got full speed. This is a known error in NT/2000, and only applies to NBT, not TCP. - My sound card still only supports stereo. And I don't want to downgrade to Windows 98 to get 3D sound. Normally, I recommed users to buy a new PC for Windows 2000, and have Windows 2000 preinstalled. This way, all hardware is compatible and drivers are already there. For new hardware, I recommend USB, because that works much better with Windows 2000 than legacy hardware. If you every try to print to a parallel port with Windows 2000, you will know what I mean. The user interface in Windows 2000 starts to multitask like if it was Windows 3.1. Lars.