Wish we knew what you were really looking for! If it's for an opinion of W2K
compared to W7, well that's a big issue and an important consideration is
what you use the OS for!
Personally I like W7 for numerous reasons. While the BLOAT of an MS OS often
slows things down, MS finally got it right with W7 ... it's overall speed
performance is good with many typical apps. The interface is visually
appealing, which most everyone likes. The OS is stable (but I have managed
to blue screen it!!).
HOWEVER, I like things a certain way and do NOT like the tighter controls MS
adopts (for security reasons). MS has departed from many of the accustomed
norms for adjusting this or that, turning on/off this or that, uninstalling,
searching, etc. I recall searching searching searching for the longest time
just trying to figure out how to uninstall a program (you no longer look for
ADD or REMOVE PROGRAMS, it's under something else, which I cannot remember)
The purpose here is not to do a comparison review of W2K and W7 or to
express my overall dislilke of their new OS, but to get you to think! What
do you really want in an OS? Heck, I still use W98 as well as W2K and XP.
Never went to Vista, never went to ME. And although W7 is installed on my
laptop PC, usage is about .1%!
MS provided a free trial version of W7 Ultimate some time ago (the one I'm
using). They also provided a generous amount of time to use the OS (expires
March 1, 2010). Have you tried the trial (RC) version? If not give it a
shot, YOU may like it. And BTW, regarding dual booting; I multi-boot with
several OS's using W7's boot loader (W98, W2K, XP, Linux as well as W7).
works great! So it should work for you.
or you could try an enterprise version for 90 days:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dd353205.aspx