Hi,

"I'm still using Windows 98, although it is serving well all my purposes,
I'm
under pressure of upgrading it as Windows 2000 came out. But before I fully
understood what Windows 2000 was, Windows XP was introduced all of a
sudden.
What is Windows XP? Is it an upgrade of Windows 2000? As Microsoft keeps
having
new versions coming out, I really don't know when the right time is to do
an
upgrade, any suggestions?""

Windows XP is more than worth the upgrade. After being annoyed by Win9x for
many years, I was going to migrate to Linux but XP is what I expected Linux
to be in terms of stability plus I can run the software *I want to run* on
the XP platform. The only thing that worries me slightly about it is the
remote access/raw sockets; these elements are not part Win2K and so may
have vunerabilities.
I have never had a blue screen/restart under XP and it has been running
almost continuously for several weeks now - I would have expected Win9x to
have gone belly up many times in that time scale. I am running Win2K (what
XP is build on) at work for months and have had to restart the machine once
but that was to do with Adaptec DirectCD....which everyones knows is a bit
dodgy.
M$ still get on my nerves but they have a good product in XP, it would
appear (so far).

Regards,
Dan

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