[LI] ADITYAN MURTHY <adityanm@usa.net>,cyberprash@hotmail.com

["Smeagol Gollum" <smeagol@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My 2 cents - having worked with these --

> 1. Outlook 2000 is NOT designed as an upgrade from OE 5.0 After you
> setup Outlook 2000, you have to specifically tell it to import all

Right - imports are possible - but data loss is equally possible.  
Upgrades anywhere - Win9x or Linux or [your O/S here] have to be 
handled carefully with backups (as I found to my cost yesterday, 
when installing redhat.  I lost over 56 megs of files, mostly 
websites, free perl scripts and archives from assorted mailing lists).

Thank heavens for backups

> All you have to do is look around a bit before doing something
> rash like that guy. 2. NEVER try upgrading from one product to
> another without backup. 

Agreed - always look around more than a bit

> 3. Windows 2000 is NOT designed for the average user and an average
> system. That was micro$oft's original intention but they gave it up

[8< 8< lots of proof that winDOZE 2000 hogs memory >8 >8]

I've seen and used it - works like a dream, but it is NT, not common 
or garden 95 / 98.  End users stay off unless reasonably clued.  You 
might also try stripping down the win2k installation, removing lots of 
useless junk, esp if you want it for a desktop PC (why the hell, I 
can't imagine - not much diff from 98 for desktop apps, significant 
upgrade over NT4).

This one is neither fish, flesh nor fowl.  A weird attempt to integrate 
a desktop os and a network os, with lots of other junk thrown in.  
Office 2k is much better than Office 97 though (and more of a 
memory hog - but what do you expect from MickeyMouseSoft?)

---s

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