In fact, if you were to switch the views back to "Classic" mode, you couldn't really tell a difference between it and 2000.
Older drivers will, for the most part, work. All that will happen is that you might get a message saying that the driver hasn't been digitally signed by Microsoft, and then the install will go on its merry way. If XP drivers aren't available, then you can still download and run 2000 drivers with nary a bump on your way.
Really, I don't know why all this anti-XP talk. There's really nothing wrong with it. If anything, I like it the best of any Windows I've used. It's quicker, more stable, has enough built-in so that there's no need to have to buy ten extra programs to use even the newest computer, and is a network administrator's dream for the users on his network to use.
If your company is headed for Server 2003, there's a fair amount of functionality that's only available if the end users are on XP. That's not greed; it's a simple matter of timeline. 2003 is based on XP, so things it can do just weren't present in earlier versions of Windows. |
