Very true and I definitely agree as far as SA goes, we have the open
business license here without SA (unfortunately) and its great. We have one
XP CD and we donÂ’t need to activate any licensing or anything. VERY AWESOME
and VERY MUCH WORTH THE MONEY!
Todd, if I were in you're shoes, I'd probably do the exact same thing. Stick
with an Operating System that has proven itself until you can get rid of all
those dreaded 9x machines (unfortunately we still have a Windows 3.11
machine running here ... Don't laugh), then move to XP as soon as the
network is "ready".
Jessee Holmes
Stremel Manufacturing Company
-----Original Message-----
From: Todd Caughey [mailto:
caugheyt@...]
Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 10:06 AM
To:
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Subject: RE: [Vantage] XP Pro vs Win2000pro
That's pretty much what I do sans SA. To upgrade machines to Win2K I buy XP
but install Win2K instead. I have our PC maker sell us XP but load Win2K
for us on new boxes. Someday I might convert to XP but really need to
finish getting off of Win98 first. Unless you pay for SA and corporate
licensing the version of XP you get has the awful license registration cr@p
that makes hardware changes impossible to deal with. My #1 reason for
avoiding XP. -Todd C.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jessee Holmes [mailto:
jholmes@...]
Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 9:55 AM
To:
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Subject: RE: [Vantage] XP Pro vs Win2000pro
Here's an idea, has anyone considered Software Assurance? As I myself prefer
XP over the others, yet still dread the new coming Windows "Longhorn" (with
database driven file management now), I'd have to say, that if you're
installing new operating systems on at least 5 machines, buy Software
Assurance ... Install Windows 2000 (if you like) until you feel XP is
"ready" for you're network, then upgrade to that at no cost.
Then, with Software Assurance, you can also hit up the new Longhorn release
coming up in the not to distant future (when its stable enough of course).
OR just buy the XP licenses, yet just use Windows 2000 (License Rollback
Clause or whatever its called), then use XP when you feel that you're ready
... And daring ;)
Just another idea,
Jessee Holmes
Stremel Manufacturing Company
-----Original Message-----
From: John Sage [mailto:
jsage@...]
Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 9:26 AM
To:
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Subject: RE: [Vantage] XP Pro vs Win2000pro
Todd,
> In my case I downloaded the LATEST drivers for a Sony picture printer,
> a new HP all in one printer/scanner/copier, a Sony PDA interface, and
> a few other toys. NOTHING but trouble.
Just because they're the latest drivers doesn't mean they're going to work.
OTOH, we're running some HP all-in-ones (ugly machines all) with no issues,
and up until July I'd been running my Clié with no issues on XP (switched to
PPC recently).
But in any case, stick with what you're good at - NT, 2K, XP. Just make
sure that you kill Win9X dead!
have fun,
john
-----Original Message-----
From: Todd Anderson [mailto:
tanderson@...]
Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 6:30 AM
To: '
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Subject: RE: [Vantage] XP Pro vs Win2000pro
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