From: kony on
On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:51:55 GMT, "Mickel"
<mickle(a)nospam.com> wrote:

>"kony" <spam(a)spam.com> wrote in message
>news:ljp2p51p5fu00jpdkshcv80ut1tkp1oivv(a)4ax.com...
>> Depends on what you mean by accepted. I still primarily
>> recommend WinXP _until_ someone can name specific, _real_
>> needs for a more bloated OS. That is, unless the system
>> came with Vista or Win7 already on it.
>>
>> I used to feel the same way about Win2k though, but over the
>> past year I've seen more and more hardware drop driver
>> support and software either clearly stated as non-supported,
>> or unofficially dropped as there are bugs due to inadequate
>> testing which may never get fixed due to apathy and/or
>> support cost & time issues.
>
>You only just started recommending XP 1 year ago?!?! I feel sorry for some
>poor sod who now has win2k on their 13 month old PC.
>

No, it was only within the last year that I'd recommend
people who were happy using Win2K, move to XP anyway.