Gary
Sat Nov 22 17:16:53 CST 2003
"Anita" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:00fe01c3b12b$4a2d78f0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> I wanted to download iTunes, and be able to download music
> from that site with an iPod. It requires Windows 2000, I
> now have Windows ME. Can I change to Windows 2000? Is that
> an upgrade? Is it better? How do I do it. Thanks
Mike M answered about whether you can even do it as an upgrade, but unless
the later service packs have made some drastic changes, you probably don't
want Win2000 on a home machine. While WinME and XP practically network and
connect themselves, as well as installing most hardware without you having
to do anything, Windows 2000 is NOT like that. We had a local guy who
thought he was doing people favors by "upgrading" their Win98 machines to
2000 when they brought them in for repair. I lost track of how many of
those that I reformatted so they could actually use them without having to
take a tech course. In fact, Win2000 was originally going to be similar to
XP in that there would be a home and a business/pro version, but they
abandoned that idea as it got into testing, and they should be commended for
doing so.
Not that it's a bad system, but I personally hate it, after tearing my hair
out trying (for example) to do something simple like get it to use a network
printer that Win98-ME-XP would have found by itself and installed without
even asking, or wondering why none of the machines could see each other on
the network...take off the 2000 machine and all was fine, and this kind of
stuff happened all the time. So go to XP if you want to use the Apple
stuff. I don't know why they would insist you need 2k/XP, but I guess
they're used to abandoning their users quickly, like they did with pre-OSX
systems. 8^)
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Gary
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