From what that article was saying, it doesn't sound like it'll be much of a problem for people who play mostly retail games.

lulz.

fuk what about cimsonland? i had to get a crack because im a broke college student. that meens no more cimsonland???!!!

Meh, give it a week and im sure the hackers out there will figure a way around this.

btw the only reason they don't like vista is because their (WildTangent) games come with adware/spyware, which vista doesn't like

Have to disagree with that, I don't think I ever once had a problem with Win2k and a game. A lot of games I far prefered to run under Win2k than XP; TFC being the main example, I always thought mouse movement was far better on 2k.

Bit of a moot point now, seen as win2k is soon to be desupported, and most large corporations are moving away from it, but I too agree it is the best office OS I've used; XP is usually much more of a pita.

Yeah, I've never seen a game compatible with XP and not 2000. Or any application for that matter. I think XP is based on the 2000 code, so it's sort of like XP without all the garbage and eyecandy to drag it down. I've heard many say they consider it MS's best, most stable OS.

There were a number of games that wouldn't run under Win2k nor would they install. Why do you think that XP included a "compatibility mode"? Why create something like that if there wasn't a need or demand? With the installation one of the biggest problems was that the installation script when it reached the directX part of the install would fail as the way the script had been written it would not recognize DirectX 7 or newer. Games written for Windows 95 and sometimes 98 were specifically the one's that had problems. The funny thing is that the prior generation that was coded for DOS you could find workarounds but the DirectX stuff was a genuine roadblock. What makes it worse is that it's getting harder and harder to find a decent motherboard that also supports Win98 AND you then have the issue of addressing the 512MB memory bug in Win98 if you setup your system to multi-boot.