>>Only concern here is if I choose for this machine to not have Internet access, how does the registration software respond? I'm womdering if it will just cut you off if it can't contact mama-MS?
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>You'll have to "phone home" for it. :-)
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Not "optimized" but I can live with it if I have to. :-)
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>I can see both of them improving as time goe on. But, another thing to consider is that since Bill G wants everyone to upgrade to XP... I wouldn't expect to see support for W2K (security fixes, bug patches, services packs) continue too long into the future, which probably mandates XP. Did you see that guy's opinion rating XP Home over XP Pro? That wsa interesting.
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And it will figure into my final decision too. Rating Home over Pro was interesting but then he may have been trying to have a more "general" perspecitve of overall users vs. geeks like us. :-)
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>There is abosolutely NO doubt that XP support will far outlive W2K. Also, since LongHorn is two years away, you know that the only 'upgrades' you'll have are service packs, and they should be free.
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>If I were *stuck* in the W2K world privacy and security would mean nothing, so I'd go directly to XP just to avoid the instabilities of the previous releases and to avoid future upgrade problems. If I were going to be mixed-platform then I would go with W2K and stay with it till Lucifer could go skiing.
>JLK

Yes, this is probably how I will ultimately approach it. I would like to get 2-3 years out of this machine so XP may be the "better" way to go ...

Bill