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"tmoran@acm.org" wrote:
 >Windows 2000 has been quite solid. Windows XP is better.
>   Having now spent the better part of two days trying to resuscitate
> a W2k system that died for no apparent reason, I beg to differ.

We have several thousand win2k PCs and around two hundred servers with
win2k. They all work within expectations.

The rule is: be careful about what you install on your PC.

Lets face it: the only reason Unix is more stable than windows, is because
Unixes does less.

greetings,