Anyone upgrading to windows XP ?

[dhwilkin]

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chych said... Actually I would bet Logitech is the one who should do something about it... Apple airport follows the 802.11 standard (or whatever that number is) and if a mouse is screwing the connection up, it is the mouse's fault. Then again, airport is able to screw up electronics on airplanes

Oh, I do agree it's probably Logitech's fault. What I meant was that you would think Apple would've done testing w/ the Airport and other common wireless devices (like a mouse) for incompatibility issues. And you'd think if they'd done that, there would at least be a notice on their website. But it looks like neither was done, which seems a little slipshod on their part.

 

[gorgon_123]

I'll have to chime in and agree with Duncan, ME has been flawless for me as well. It came preloaded on my 9 month old Dell.

No plans on upgradeing to XP, but who knows what the future may hold

I'm surprised all these headphone geeks aren't running Linux

 

[eric343]

I *was* running Linux, and I *will* be running Linux, as soon as I get a new motherboard!

 

[aos]

You can read the

http://firingsquad.gamers.com/features/winxpfuss/

and decide for yourself if you want to buy XP.

It's passionate and harsh and mostly thruthful.

 

[coolvij]

aos: That's exactly why I would've said "hell no."

But.....I just have the time.

And besides - I could care less about whether mp3/wma blows into a HUGE war....I want SACD!

I DO, however, care about consumer's rights - as if Microsoft REALLY cared.....lol....

 

[sackley]

Woohoo, new wireless optical mouse and keyboard arrived today. Sweet! I am going to be ordering myself the MicroZOTL on Monday too. So I am treating myself very well right now.

 

[MacDEF]

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XP is the best OS Microsoft has released to date. I predict it will be a blockbuster of an OS for them!

You're really going out on a limb there, aren't you?

Let's see... 85-90% market share... and they release something that FINALLY makes things like networking, USB, digital media, and CD burning somewhat accessible and useable for the average consumer.

I'd say it should do well.

Only problem is that like most Microsoft upgrades, you need even more hard drive space and RAM, and a faster processor. Too much silly eye candy. But then again, I guess most people will like that.

 

[dhwilkin]

If anybody's going to be getting XP, at least get the Professional version... the Home version just leaves too much stuff out. And unfortunately, none of that stuff is bloat!

 

[aos]

>Only problem is that like most Microsoft upgrades, you need >even more hard drive space and RAM, and a faster processor. >Too much silly eye candy. But then again, I guess most people >will like that.

However consumer shoud be careful to upgrade all components BEFORE upgrading the OS otherwise he'll end up in need of calling MS to activate it several times

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I actually spend thousands on hardware each year. I change motherboards 3 times a year on average, and cpu about as often etc. I don't believe MS will not become suspicious if I call them once a month to reactivate and I don't want police knocking on my door on behalf of MS. So that leaves either using windows XP and upgrading hardware FAR less times, or sticking with windows 2000 and seeing if the XP version 2 will drop the silly scheme.

In any case I can see less money going to hardware vendors. I don't think they'll be happy.

 

[Duncan]

I agree aos... How I read into that FiringSquad review is that each time you upgrade your hardware you have to buy a new copy of XP to stop the feds knocking on the door... that sucks to me! - Hmm, I think i'll stay with the software I have... All legitimate through the course of upgrading my system, I have Win95osr2b, Win98, Win98se and WinME... surely at least one of those is future proof?!?

 

[eric343]

Well, there's a ton of sites where you can download "cracks" to bypass the activation... But I still won't buy XP. I like Win2k. IMHO it's the only mediocre to good OS ever made by MSFT. The rest were all crud

 

[Audio Redneck]

Currently I have my network (office and remote clinics) running NT/2k). For stability and network management, I'm a firm believer in the NT kernel (I'd prefer a linux world, but there are still too few buisness apps for it). I'll probably go XP eventually, but I doubt before Service Pack 1.

 

[eric343]

Tell it all, brother!

- Linus Torvalds, when he jumped up in the middle of a speech by Larry Wall (IIRC) after Larry explained that if you took all the credit for an open-source project, people would immediately look to see who else contributed and give credit to them, but if you refused a large portion of the credit people immediately assume you did most of it yourself

Needless to say, my thoughts resonate with yours, Mr. Redneck...

 

[redshifter]

well, i work at microsoft and run xp beta on my mail machine and xp advanced server on my test machines (we call it eating dogfood). nice looking os, and despite their claims it is a simpler ui, it ain't. as of now there are some pretty major bugs to still be addressed, and i give it the "three fingered salute (ctrl-alt-del)" almost daily. still, if they can whip this puppy into shape by the october release date it should really rock, as long as you have a really new computer.