Windows XP - MVP Advice needed

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Help! I have recently had a "heated" discussion with a friend of mine who
contends that XP is not a more stable operating system than Win95 or Win98
because XP was still developed over DOS. When I mentioned that I thought XP
is considered a more stable system because it was developed along from
NT/Windows2000 he said bulls**t.

So, why is XP considered to be a more stable operating system? Is XP
"underpinned" by DOS? What are the major differences in the operating
systems.

Thanks
 
XP is derived from the NT line - it does not have an underlying DOS, as
Win9x/ME do. XP is the operating system.

In my experience, Win2k and XP are much more stable than 9x - better memory
management, (you don't see the user resources dwindling away through the
day), isolation of applications (one crashing does not usually bring down
the whole system as can easily happen in 9x).

I've had a 2K system run for over 45 days straight, and the reboot that
ended that streak was brought on by a critical update requiring it. Win 98
gets rebooted once or twice a day, just to keep it running.

Will I give up my Win98 box? Not as long as I have customers still using
it, so I have to have a testbed.

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Help! I have recently had a "heated" discussion with a friend of mine who
contends that XP is not a more stable operating system than Win95 or Win98
because XP was still developed over DOS. When I mentioned that I thought XP
is considered a more stable system because it was developed along from
NT/Windows2000 he said bulls**t.

So, why is XP considered to be a more stable operating system? Is XP
"underpinned" by DOS? What are the major differences in the operating
systems.

Thanks
 
Help! I have recently had a "heated" discussion with a friend of mine who
contends that XP is not a more stable operating system than Win95 or Win98
because XP was still developed over DOS. When I mentioned that I thought XP
is considered a more stable system because it was developed along from
NT/Windows2000 he said bulls**t.

So, why is XP considered to be a more stable operating system? Is XP
"underpinned" by DOS? What are the major differences in the operating
systems.
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He's the one talking bulls**t. Though I wouldn't bother to argue -
that sort of person will argue that the moon is made of green cheese.

Cheers,

Cliff
 
-----Original Message-----
Help! I have recently had a "heated" discussion with a friend of mine who
contends that XP is not a more stable operating system than Win95 or Win98
because XP was still developed over DOS. When I mentioned that I thought XP
is considered a more stable system because it was developed along from
NT/Windows2000 he said bulls**t.

So, why is XP considered to be a more stable operating system? Is XP
"underpinned" by DOS? What are the major differences in the operating
systems.

Thanks




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Greetings --

Your friend should stick to flipping burgers. He knows little to
nothing about Microsoft operating systems. The WinNT family of 32-bit
graphical operating systems, of which WinXP is the latest generation,
has never used, included, or "ridden upon" MS-DOS.

Like WinNT and Win2K before it, WinXP is more stable for a
multitude of reasons. The most glaringly obvious are:

- No underlying 16-bit OS, such as MS-DOS
- No mongrel conglomeration of 16-bit and 32-bit code, such as Win9x
- NTFS, a fault-tolerant, journaling file system
- Applications cannot directly access hardware components

For more information:

Compare Windows XP Professional to Prior Versions of Windows
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/evaluation/whyupgrade/default.mspx




Bruce Chambers
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Bruce Chambers said:
Greetings --

Your friend should stick to flipping burgers. He knows little to
nothing about Microsoft operating systems. The WinNT family of 32-bit
graphical operating systems, of which WinXP is the latest generation, has
never used, included, or "ridden upon" MS-DOS.

Like WinNT and Win2K before it, WinXP is more stable for a multitude of
reasons. The most glaringly obvious are:

- No underlying 16-bit OS, such as MS-DOS
- No mongrel conglomeration of 16-bit and 32-bit code, such as Win9x
- NTFS, a fault-tolerant, journaling file system
- Applications cannot directly access hardware components

For more information:

Compare Windows XP Professional to Prior Versions of Windows
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/evaluation/whyupgrade/default.mspx




Bruce Chambers
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Help us help you:



You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having
both at once. - RAH
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Add to that the fact that XP is less tolerant of bad hardware. 98 would
happily install on systems with flaky ram or other marginal components, then
randomly choke and crash. XP is more likely to just refuse to install or run
the bad hardware.
 
Thanks everyone - I thought I was working along the right lines - my friend
should consider a change of occupation to being a hamburger flipper!
 
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