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by jaytmoon

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I run an office with a mixed bag of Windows OS's from 2K XP and 98se. A handfull of the W2K systems have been running steadily for nearly 6 months. The only time I shut them down is to update any antivirus or os updates, as well as cleaning out the dust from the fans.
There are very valid arguments within this thread concerning the stability of M$'s OS's (or lack thereof)and the glorious benefits of the Unix based systems. They all have their pro's and con's. The problems with ALL OF THEM is when you begin to add foreign plug-ins and other software to the systems, they begin to degrade and break down. Sure, the OS's could be better! Sure, they SHOULD be cheaper! The reliability of any software is directly linked to its hardware and symbiotic software environment. (That is why APPLE has been so successful with its various publications).

Frankly it amazes me that Microsoft can make their OS's work at all on so many different hardware combinations,(both cheap and high end).

The black box approach is likely a good idea providing the privacy isssues are brought to light and proven safe.
Just my .02

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by mjd420nova

Really, that's why I choose MS, beacuse it will
load and function on any platform. I build
close to 500 machines a year, from whatever is available for a reasonable price for it's
capablities. Celeron, Athlon, Pentium, whatever.
And they all work. Yes addition of sound cards,
video capture cards and some hard drives will slow the unit down further, but with careful
inspection of the specs for the software that's
to be loaded will yeild clues as to what will work best with what hardware. I can't do that
with a CRAPPLE and find the glitches and
incompatabilities are massive and not worth the
headaches. Users just want it to work, whatever
it is , whatever it's running and for at least
two years without a hardware failure. Pretty
tough demands, but a little research will reveal
the best MOBO, sound card, hard drive, CD/DVD,
and video cards that are best suited to the
system and the user. Thru trial and experience you'll find the best for each and the result pays dividends for both the service people and the user.

by tony hopkinson

if I didn't boot my NT3.51 and 4 servers once every 7 to ten days they used up all available memory and started thrashing badly. How much of that was down to my or other none ms software is open to question, I traced a number of leaks into the OS and ended up working round them. Hardware reliability is not something that really concerns me, drivers only concern me after windows update decides to change the one that worked for one that doesn't. Code that forgets that it locked a resource and an OS that forgets who's got what definitely does though. In fairness the latter has improved for them and the former for me.

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