Re: FN-FORUM Windows 2000 or Windows XP

date posted 16th January 2002 14:31

Felix Ritchie wrote:

> From all the reviews I've read XP seems to offer a bit more than W2K
> but not enough to make it worth upgrading. But if you've got it
> preinstalled I don't see the benefit of going back to W2K - especially
> as Microsoft is only producing XP version of some core software now.
> After all W2K is NT5 and XP is NT6, and you wouldn't uninstall w98SE to
> replace it with w98, would you?


Just a small point - Win2k is indeed NT5, but XP is NT5.1.


> One omission from XP relevant to web developers is the lack of Java in
> the standard XP bundle - you'll need to download a JVM.


Probably the best thing M$ did with XP - would save me the task of
disabling it if I ever upgrade.


> Big warning though: I believe XP offers a new version of NTFS, which
> means if you format the hard disk with XP's version, you won't be able
> to dual-boot or install W2K - you'll need to reformat it. You could
> stick with the W2K format, but presumably if the machine has XP
> preinstalled it'll use the latest version of NTFS.


I'll have to have a look at that - didn't know they'd done something to
NTFS *again* - they messed about with it enough between NT4 & 5.

-C