"Dave T." ha scritto
No, I didn't have 5 years with w2k, but I had six years with XP. The
reason I quit XP was that I tired of doing monthly wash & wipes. I'm now
in month 8 with Vista, and I've forgotten what blue looks like. Not one
crash, zero bsod's, lots of speed with 3 gigs of ram. I'm a happy camper
with Vista. FWIW, I remember Win3.0 wouldn't add 2+2 without a crash.

the first windows i met was 2.0, with the double windows logo converging to
the center from both sides if i remember. a bit slow on 286/386's.

i scarcely used xp. have it on my work machine but dont like it. imho and
imhx it never added anything substantial to win2000, in a work environment
at least. bsod ratio same or greater.
yesterday bychance i tested a vb routine to check th o.s. version.
this is the code

Case 5
If .dwMinorVersion = 0 Then
getVersion = "Windows 2000"
Else
getVersion = "Windows XP"
End If
Case Else
getVersion = .dwMajorVersion & "." & .dwMinorVersion & " - Windows Vista"

(i added the last two lines, which give a 6.0 version for vista)
i translate it as "xp is a minor upgrade from win2000). which i knew by
experience.

as for the speed, this vista machine is fast. but it's a dual core, the xp
machine is a p4, same clock. and i feel that both 2k and xp on this machine
would be definitely faster.

i like vista, though. but it's far from being steady.

ciao, ZC