Subject: Re: Windows XP
From: Chris Hamilton (chris@digitalalaska.com)
Date: Thu Oct 25 2001 - 22:29:10 AKDT
sorry for typo
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Hamilton" <chris@digitalalaska.com>
To: <aklug@aklug.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 10:27 PM
Subject: Re: Windows XP
>
> > My recommendation if you are to use a Windows product is to use Windows
> 2000 or
> > Windows 98.
>
> Looks like most home users won't have much choice. Most major
manufacturers
> will probably shit their systems out with XP as the default OS.
>
> Also, I tinkered with a laptop with XP on it, and the laptop was able to
> browse a samba share. At least that is one positive for it.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "The Alaskan Bear" <akbear@akbearsden.com>
> To: <aklug@aklug.org>
> Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 10:08 PM
> Subject: Re: Windows XP
>
>
> >
> > Ok, let's start with your what's wrong with it question.
> >
> > The Answer is very simple: It's MicroSoft, It's Windows.
> > Now, with that said, I am advising all my customers to completely stay
> away
> > from Windows XP. If you remember when Windows ME came out, it was
> supposedly
> > so go great, but there were numerous problems with it. All Windows XP
is,
> is
> > Windows ME and Windows 2000 put together. The biggest thing that
> MicroSoft
> > didn't do, was fix the bugs in either when they combined them. Now,
Win2K
> > isn't that bad, it has been pretty stable from what friends of mine have
> stated
> > but, Windows ME on the other hand is a different story. For the most
> part,
> > MicroSoft doesn't even support Windows ME really, and do to that fact,
> they
> > didn't fix any of the bugs. I have tested Windows XP on the 1 windows
> computer
> > I use for testing, and I have had to summarily wipe that drive do to the
> fact that
> > it wouldn't even allow me to boot it up after I made a hardware change
to
> it.
> >
> > My recommendation if you are to use a Windows product is to use Windows
> 2000 or
> > Windows 98.
> >
> > Ted Montgomery
> > The Alaskan Bear's Den
> > (907) 242-9824
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 05:23:18AM +0000, Chase C. wrote:
> > >
> > > okay, here's the big question- Anybody else toying around with
Windows
> XP?
> > > what's wrong with it?
> > >
> > > so far... it deleted my user settings, dispite claiming that it
wouldnt
> do
> > > that.
> > >
> > > oh.. and can we say Monopoly? yeesh Microsoft's takin over the
world!
> > > ahhhhh well okay maybe not.
> > >
> > > Chase
> > >
> > >
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