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Sean, Do you happen to work for Microsoft? The reason I ask is that I see you are from Redmond WA (close to Seattle, and the home of Nintendo of America, woohoo!). For the time being, it might seem painless. But just wait till thousands of users are all trying to register or re-register their...

I'd do a little researching beforehand. If the drivers exist for Win2K for the peripherals you want to use, definitely go with Win2K. You could always go with both OSes which is what I recommend. It's very, very easy to set the machine up. If you need help with this feel free to let me know and...

Parker, I would assume that the Win2K drivers would work for XP (same kernel), but I could be wrong.

Interesting read (the white papers)... in the end, ultimately, the reason that I wont use XP (at least for now) is that it does not offer a significant improvemet over Win2K. Win2K was a HUGE improvement over NT 4 (plug and play alone made it worth its weight). But, as for XP, it's going to take...

Brian, My biggest gripe is with the fact that you have to reregister the product when you make a hardware update. It's a pain in the ass, it takes up alot of valuable time, and it's intrusive. It's not an issue of being able to pirate something. I'm not sure if you work with computers much...

Right on about the NIC deal... each card's MAC address would cause it to have a different hardware ID, even if everything else in the system was identical (or, if it was a P3, I think the Serial # on the chip affects a HW ID as well). This is how Microsoft ensures that each GUID is totally...

Not to mention the rumors that the final version of XP will not include Microsoft's Virtual Machine. It seems that Microsoft is attempting to do away with Java completely (well, that's old news) and trying to get everyone to switch over to .NET ...

I've been toying around with Windows XP (and before that, "Whistler") for a few months here at work. Luckily, we are subscribers to the complete MSDN collection (every product that Microsoft makes, we have) and as such, our version of XP doesn't have the annoying "anti-piracy" measures...