We have a few new Win2K machines here (no real incentive to upgrade - some users are still on Win95 & happy), and they have been OK. The odd strange security/permissions 'issues' and crashing/locking up occasionally but better than NT4 overall.
I think Win2K really wants nice modern & clean hardware - I wouldn't recommend installing overtop of NT or Win 9x or installing onto something like my mutant P166 home pc.
Only other problems has been hardware/driver support - the users on Win2K had some real problems with a external HP CD-writer and a multi-function printer/scanner/fax thingy.
The change in UI has been a pain for experienced NT/95 users as well - one advantage of the Windows OS's _was_ that Win9x & WinNT pretty much share a common UI but with the random UI changes that MS introduced in Win2K there is enough differences to be confusing.
Biggest problem? paying $$$ for the privilege of OS stability when Linux gives you that (& better support) for the cost of a MS game <sigh>.
BTW - we have recently been discussing registration systems (all our applications require registration). Opinion was that clients hate being forced to use on-line
registration or leasing software over the net (aka ASP). Makes me wonder about the whole .NET thing - I think that MS are going to have a real struggle to push the benefits (if any) of leasing something like Win2x to customers.
Just my 2c worth.
Grant
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Colin Fraser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, 15 February 2001 11:24
> To: Multiple recipients of list offtopic
> Subject: [DUG-OFFTOPIC]: Win 2000 problems...
>
>
> This is quite off topic, hope it is ok....
>
> Just wondering what the general feeling of Win 2000 is out there.
>
> We have started rolling it out to a few desktops... and man... what a
> nightmare...
>
> Every PC with it installed crashes far more regularly than
> Win NT4, our
> users have a standing joke that MS got rid of the Blue Screen
> of Death, now
> their PCs just crash (much more frequently) and start
> rebooting without
> showing the BSOD!
>
> And everyday software, like Adobe Acrobat for example,
> doesn't work for non
> administrators without resetting security on various registry
> keys. (Even a
> couple of MS apps didn't work.)
