I'm running win2k at home and XP at work. Though I don't see any reason to upgrade to XP from win2k, and have quite a few reasons not to. One of the most compelling reasons not to upgrade is that the new "pretty" interface which seems to run slower then old people ****.
That being said, I couldn't be happier with M$'s WinXP release. An unintended consequence is making my win2k life much more pleasant. I have and oldish machine at home which started its life as a win98 box. I upgraded to win2k soon after it was released for stability reasons etc... But had a nagging problem with third party driver support for my older hardware. Since the user base for win2k was small in comparison to Win98/WinME, and win2k was supposed to be for office use hardware manufactures could get away with not releasing new drivers for old hardware. Since WinXP's release, all of a sudden; there appeared new XP drivers for a lot of the old unsupported hardware. I instead these drivers for win2k and all of them have worked so far. I would recommend that anyone who has unsupported win2k hardware, check the manufacture's site to see if they are releasing XP drivers. If so you may be able to revive some of your old hardware from your pile of outdated computer part.
I noticed that the new version of MSN is running under Microsoft's.Net platform (via.aspx extensions in the links and forms with runat="server" from the source). I wonder if they are trying to prove that.net is ready for prime time?
Microsoft has been trying to blur the line between client and server code to make web programming easier (i.e. more like Visual Basic). Perhaps a lot of the functionality contained with in their new Web Form technology, uses I.E. only functionality. If so MSN could be first of many I.E. only web sites.
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I'm running win2k at home and XP at work. Though I don't see any reason to upgrade to XP from win2k, and have quite a few reasons not to. One of the most compelling reasons not to upgrade is that the new "pretty" interface which seems to run slower then old people ****.
That being said, I couldn't be happier with M$'s WinXP release. An unintended consequence is making my win2k life much more pleasant. I have and oldish machine at home which started its life as a win98 box. I upgraded to win2k soon after it was released for stability reasons etc... But had a nagging problem with third party driver support for my older hardware. Since the user base for win2k was small in comparison to Win98/WinME, and win2k was supposed to be for office use hardware manufactures could get away with not releasing new drivers for old hardware. Since WinXP's release, all of a sudden; there appeared new XP drivers for a lot of the old unsupported hardware. I instead these drivers for win2k and all of them have worked so far. I would recommend that anyone who has unsupported win2k hardware, check the manufacture's site to see if they are releasing XP drivers. If so you may be able to revive some of your old hardware from your pile of outdated computer part.
I noticed that the new version of MSN is running under Microsoft's .Net platform (via .aspx extensions in the links and forms with runat="server" from the source). I wonder if they are trying to prove that .net is ready for prime time?
Microsoft has been trying to blur the line between client and server code to make web programming easier (i.e. more like Visual Basic). Perhaps a lot of the functionality contained with in their new Web Form technology, uses I.E. only functionality. If so MSN could be first of many I.E. only web sites.