[Discussion] Winblows Tax Programs

[Esther Schindler]

On Mar 19, 2007, at 8:49 PM, Kev wrote:
>> Few are
>> writing apps that support Windows ME either. You may want to look at
>> upgrading the version of Windows you use in Virtual PC. I suspect
>> that you can find someone happy to give you their old copy of Windows
>> 2000. (Which personally I liked better than Windows 98 anyhow.)
>
> Several people I know who are in the support industry and are  
> forced to
> support Windoze tell me that Win2K was the pinnacle for Windblows.  I
> have a copy of it installed in a VM for those rare occasions when I  
> need
> it.  I must say, it /is/ quite pleasant compared to /any/ other  
> Wintendo
> I've had the displeasure to use.

Windows 2000 was far better than Windows 98. Windows XP was/is -- in  
many respects -- far better than Windows 2000. But Win2000 was a  
virus factory and an invitation to hackers.

I haven't found a reason to look at Windows Vista yet. None of the  
"gosh don't you want THIS?" features that Microsoft stresses have  
made me at all interested in it. It really, really is a pale shadow  
of what's available on Mac OS X.

Esther