Why I had to upgrade from Windows NT to Windows 2000

I was doing fine in Windows NT until a strange malady set in with respect to accessing Web pages. I could reliably access new URLs that I had never visited before, but old ones would tend to hang forever, as if the host is down (when it wasn't).¹⁷Upgrading to Windows 2000 fixed the Web access problems in NT.

However, W2K is no bed of roses just yet. Brother didn't get around to porting a printer driver for the MFC-7150C until July 2000, so I could not print under W2K for months. Worse, Microsoft has ``improved'' the NT Backup program so that it now no longer supports my SCSI DAT drive. I therefore cannot do backups under W2K.