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entertainment-oriented hardware.

? Most important of all, Windows have the desktop applications of Microsoft

office and visual basic.

? Windows 98 SE will include Internet Explorer 5, support for new types of

hardware such as new Device Bay, IEEE1394, and the aforementioned DSL and

cable modems), and some bug fixes.

? Windows 2000, the most recent creation of Microsoft O/S, is mainly for

running business applications and big databases.

? It has central management.

The cons of Microsoft Windows:

? Windows often have crashes with DLL.

? It is not free to download so you have to bye it.

? Windows 2000 starts slow, stops fast.

? Windows 2000 does not provide entertainment-oriented hardware.

? Windows is not an open source program

The articles used:

1. Title: Windows 2000

2. Title: Windows, Windows, Windows! (Microsoft developing three OS versions

3. Title: Bill’s Big Roll-Out/ Author

? How to get access to both Linux and Windows software:

? You can download Linux kernel from the Internet for free, but you need X

Windows System, compiler, editors and lots of other pieces to run an

operating system. You can buy them from Caldera Open Linux at

http://www.caldera.com or from Red Hat at http://www.redhat.com

? Widows 98, 2000 or Windows NT could be bought at any software store.

v We are going to hand out a questionnaire to the class, and use it as a pole

to see how may people use linux and windows and which one they prefer. We

will use the results in our presentation.

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