[thelist] Winstability - best version for webdev

[Czechowski, Aaron]

win2k, win2k, win2k!  your numbers for crashes are what i've seen here at
work and in cetain publications.  winnt4 is MUCH more stable than any win9x,
but win2k is an improvement upon that.  i've been using win2k for about 9
months and love it.  when an app crashes - everything else is fine.  my
network connection might die, or a server might go down, but i don't need to
restart.  other than restarts due to installation of certain apps, I really
only HAD to restart the system once or twice in those 9 months.  and that
was only when i did something stupid, threw lots of memory crushing apps and
didn't really have the memory to handle it.  Any I restarted mostly because
I didn't want to wait for all the apps to die and the OS to stabalize - from
years of working with Win9x, I've been conditioned to reboot at the first
sign of problems!

Basically, in a nutshell, I highly recommend Windows 2000 Professional as a
business desktop OS.

Aaron :)


Aaron M. Czechowski, MCP
Senior Client Services Associate
Computing and Network Services
Towson University

www.towson.edu/cans
www.towson.edu/~aczech


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oliver Lineham [mailto:oliver at lineham.co.nz]
> 
> hi all,
> 
> i'm trying to decide what windows version to reinstall for 
> this machine 
> (used primarily for web development) - windows 2000 or nt4.  
> i have the 
> system resources for either.
> 
> my main priority is stability, with interface a close second.
> 
> my experience has been roughly (not necessarily on this box):
>   win 95:  4-5 or more crashes per day
>   win 98:  1-2 crashes per day
>   win NT:  stable for many days
>   2000:  i've not used it.
> 
> nt is pretty stable.  but I really love the small ui improvements in 
> 98/2000 - the quicklaunch toolbars on the task bar, the way you can 
> minimise apps by clicking their task bar button, reordering 
> menus by just 
> dragging.. etc.  stuff nt4 doesn't have.
> 
> is 2000 more stable than nt4?  or less stable?
>