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To move to xp or not?

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by chad

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I support a large and small University environment. I have been forced by upper management to move to Windows XP in the smaller environment. I would prefer our techs to only have to support one OS. XP appears to be a good deal, but I've been happy with the stability of Windows 2000. Licensing and hardware is not an issue, so I could move up to XP at any time.

Any suggestions, opinions, warning?

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by djent

Do you have a compelling reason to upgrade or has your boss just seen to many MS "you can fly" commercials? Seriously W2K is stable and XP still has problems. Should they be MS's problems or yours?

by thechas

On the network with student access, you m,ight want to stick with W2K.

Since XP has full support for gaming and other non-academic activities, you will have fewer student induced problems if you stick with W2K.

Otherwise, I would compare the 2networks, and see which one has the most problems ove rthe next couple of months.

If it is easier to support the XP network, then switch the large network over to XP.

Chas

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