From: Rob Bell (RobDBell_at_netscape.net)
Date: Thu Apr 11 2002 - 08:54:00 EDT
stevec50_at_yahoo.com wrote:
> Frequent crashes like that are a commom problem with
> Win2000 and also XP. They don't like lots of different
> kinds of video and sound cards and some motherboards,
> leading to frequent crashes. It especially doesn't
> like ATI video controller chips. In a desktop machine
> you could change the cards, possibly put in an nvidia
> card or new motherboard but that's not possible in a
> laptop so you should go back to Windows 98SE or ME
> which work good too.
To say that Windows 2000 crashes frequently is simply inaccurate. I've
been using Win2000 since early betas in many different
laptop/desktop/server environments and have consulted for many companies
that have deployed Win2000. This is probably the most stable and
well-constructed OS that Microsoft has ever built. It has a reputation
for stability. If Win2000 is experiencing crashes on a particular
system you can be sure that there is an unusual hardware or driver
problem causing it. You may have personally experienced hardware
issues, but to call them frequent when referring to the Win2000
installed base as a whole is not accurate.
No, I don't work for MS, nor do I really like them much, but Windows
2000 is a stable product that seemed like it was getting unfairly jabbed
here.
Rob
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