I have only crashed W2K 3 times in almost 4 years of use--and all of them related to dead-or-dying hardware. XP has all those fun "something has died due to a serious error--do you want to send an error report?" (think Norton Anti-virus on OEM boxes before applying a Norton patch) In general XP suffers from a lot of GPF's that W2K does not--although both of them suffer from very few blue screens. As for someone else's question about not installing crappy drivers, that really means not installing hardware that's not on the HCL Bad, cheap hardware = Crappy drivers = Blue screens. Driver signing isn't just an MS gimmick
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I have only crashed W2K 3 times in almost 4 years of use--and all of them related to dead-or-dying hardware.
XP has all those fun "something has died due to a serious error--do you want to send an error report?" (think Norton Anti-virus on OEM boxes before applying a Norton patch) In general XP suffers from a lot of GPF's that W2K does not--although both of them suffer from very few blue screens.
As for someone else's question about not installing crappy drivers, that really means not installing hardware that's not on the HCL
Bad, cheap hardware = Crappy drivers = Blue screens. Driver signing isn't just an MS gimmick