upgrading to windows nt

[Guest baker55443]

Can I upgrade to windows nt from my windows 98? Have disk for windows nt but

don't know the best route to go What all do I need to install before

upgrading

[Guest Dan]

RE: upgrading to windows nt

 

You would downgrade from Windows 98 to Windows NT. You may want to change

from the 9x consumer operating system to the business NT (New Technology aka

Not There) operating system but many in this newsgroup may not feel that it

is an upgrade to switch from 98 especially 98 Second Edition to NT and I am

guessing you are referring to XP.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_98 (98 Second Edition released on May

5, 1999)

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT_4.0 (latest with NT in name and

released on July 29, 1996)

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_2000 (still supported but primarily

caters to businesses and not used too much anymore --- releaseed on February

17, 2000)

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP (supported and suggested but has

highly critical vulnerabilities to be aware of --- check secunia.com website

in search box for details)

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista (secure operating system that I

would suggest using if you don't need to worry about backwards compatibility

especially after service pack 1 comes out and kinks are worked out such as

too much automatic crap that gives you warning a warning message but you need

to read up in a log later on, user account control needs to be overhauled --

I have it turned off until then, Internet Explorer 7 still needs to learn

from Mozilla Firefox about all the cool extensions and realize its browser is

second best or even third best from Mozilla Firefox first and then probably

Opera and then Internet Explorer 6 and then I.E. 7. There are many reasons I

say this and will discuss them more fully in detail if people are interested

in debating in the browser war thread. Finally, I did not even include

Windows ME because it was 9x consumer source code based but seemed to be just

a crappy released operating system to help push all users to one line of

source code which was NT and help Microsoft save money in the long run

because it is really expensive to maintain 2 lines of source code and that is

why the federal gov't (DOD, NSA, myself, other professionals, Google,

Mozilla, etc.) want to purchase the 9x source code from Microsoft.

Unfortunately, Microsoft has been stubborn about holding unto their IP

(Intellectual Property) but hopefully the Feds and/or European Union will

help Microsoft see the light that competition is good for all consumers and

we need the 9x source code for many things. I am in deep discussion about

this with Chris Quirke, MVP.

 

"baker55443" wrote:

> Can I upgrade to windows nt from my windows 98? Have disk for windows nt but

> don't know the best route to go What all do I need to install before

> upgrading