Subject: Re: Windows XP
From: Chase C. (akmormon@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Oct 25 2001 - 22:31:40 AKDT
i just threw XP on the P3... playing around right now, a few down sides, my
Sound Blaster Live wont run, and i've got to wait until the new drivers come
out from SB before i can use it.
the Firewall built in really bites, im a user of Zone Alarm, and XP wont let
me use it. probably get a friend to send me a trojan some time, we'll see
how well Microsoft's firewall holds up.
but- Everything is running much faster, my computer starts up in about half
the time, and programs run much faster, heck- i got downloads of 65k/s off
our cable modem a second ago (ussually it limits to 30k/s). Im still ticked
about no MP3's playing though.
I see a few more lawsuits comin on for Microsoft though- there's a lot of
stuff that wont run.. my MP3- i just discovered.
Chase
From: "Chris Hamilton" <chris@digitalalaska.com>
To: <aklug@aklug.org>
Subject: Re: Windows XP
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 22:27:02 -0800
> 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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