I was a believer in Microsoft for a while. I thought you won the OS battle due to putting out a cheap and semi-capable OS. I started losing the faith when I used more stable OS’s but I still believed that MS would catch up. I really started losing faith when you came out with the Passport- new User agrements. Now I have realized that you are the Anti-Christ.
My Dad downloaded to his new laptop the latest XP updates. I just spent the last three hours trying to get his broadband connection to work. I got the broadband issue resolved within 30 minutes. BUT IE, which is your product, wouldn’t work with the updates YOUR company sent out. After 2.5 hours it turns out that disabling the broadband option and having IE ‘Dial’ a phone number actually lets IE see a broadband connection. Mr. Gates…WTF? It then took another half hour to figure out why IE was set to ‘work offline’ all the time after the update.
Mr. Gates, if XP is a stable OS then I am GOD.
Mr. Gates, you said that if you lost the lawsuit you are in MS would pull Windows off the market. Please do, as I can live with out the crap you are selling.
I love Windows XP, and I have the Home edition. I have been running it since December and not one single blue screen or crash. All my old hardware & software runs great (and sometimes even better) than it ever did in Win 98. I have a broadband connection and have downloaded all the Windows XP updates, not one single problem. I am not just lucky, nor am I a computer geek. If you don’t like Windows, don’t buy it - you do have that choice, you know. But good luck finding another OS that you are happy with.
I run XP at home, and W2K at work. The later is more stable, but I like the new interface on XP and a lot of other stuff. The onlöy problem for six months has been that every so often, the hd went wild. When checking, something called svchost.exe was eating 15-20% cpu.
Took a while to figure it out. It’s an indexing system, supposedly made to find files easier. By default it runs automatically. sigh So sometging designed to make my computer work fast, is actually slowing it down. After disabling said feature, it runs like a charm.
I wouldn’t instyall it without 256 MB ram and at least 1GHz CPU, since it eats up quite a lot of the performance.
I have a cable modem and starting it up on XP meant: connecting it to the computer. I was shocked. I’d taken out the CD and the manual my cable modem came with and was all set to do the same things to install it that I had done on Win98.
Had to put it all away without even looking at it. XP’s got my vote. Haven’t had one single problem yet, and it’s been a month and a half by now. No way could I have said that in the first month and a half of Win98.
I love Windows XP for exactly one reason: ClearType font rendering.
On my new Dell Inspiron 8100 with SXGA (1400x1050), set to native resolution and with cleartype enabled, it looks better than any computer screen I’ve ever seen, including Mac OSX. The text is sharper and smoother than any I’ve seen anywhere; italic and bold fonts look italic and bold, not tilted and doubled.
That said, that’s the only thing I’ve found to love about it. I haven’t had any problems with it, but I see zero improvement over Windows 2000, and that’s with more processor and RAM. I prefer XP’s Windows Update to the old site, but that’s a minor thing.
Well, I AM a computer geek. I have a FreeBSD box, a NetBSD box, a Redhat Linux box and my Win98 box. I’d much rather use my other boxes but there are some things, like games, that will only run on a Windows or Mac box. I’d get a Mac but I can’t afford one right now. In fact I do all my serious work on one of the *nix boxen. There are only 2 OS’s I have used that I rank lower than Windows, AS-400 and VOS, and both of them are used on mainframes.
I am sick of cleaning up MS OS issues. Due to my experence everyone in the family relies on me to help them fix stuff if they can’t resolve it themselves. 80% of the issues are OS related. MS releases buggy unsecure code all the time and half the time the fixes MS releases breaks something else. I read something in PC Magazine(I think that was the mag) about XP updates breaking stuff. I forgot about it untill my Dad called. The bummer of it was I told my Dad to update XP due to a big security hole in the version he had.
On the other hand the only time my *nix boxes break is if I screw something up. Hell, my FreeBSD box has been running for over a year and a half with out rebooting. In that time I’ve had to restart a process or two but nothing else.
I never in the OP claimed that it was the most stable OS. All I said is that MS claimed XP was stable.
Well, an update to the OS breaks not only broadband connectivity(which could possibly be written off as a hardware specific issue) but also breaks Internet Explorer which is supposedly intergrated into the OS. This on a laptop that is a couple of months old and has been used very lightly. Now that is stable.
I’ve worked in a couple NOC’s and Windows was a joke compared to the other OS’s in use. Has the situtation gotten better? Yes. Is it anywhere near good? No.
Well, I have a Pentium III 550 Mhz, with -admittedly- 384 MB’s of RAM (I couldn’t get any more into the motherboard :)).
XP completely aces the performance Win 98 had on the same PC. When I installed it, it recognised ALL hardware, including my external Alcatel ADSL modem connected to an Ethernet card, and a Handspring Visor cradle. BSOD’s? I’ve had maybe 2 since I’ve installed it some 4 months ago, and the machine is on pretty much all the time. And online most of the time, too. All MS updates install beautifully.
I had a problem where the update program downloaded the wrong driver for my video card. It was a clustfuck to say the least. Everything was fucked up after that. System Restore wouldn’t even work.
Regardless, I like XP for the most part. I like the look and some of the features of the OS.
The only annoynace I have found is that the only way to repair a LAN connection in XP is by working your way thru a bunch of menus and right clicking to repair the connection. My Secure_remote connection to work bumps me offline if I leave it up when my cable modem refreshes it IP.
When I was on the preview program for XP I was very impressed. My first release canditate copy that I had never crashed on me, once. I would have continued using it but it didn’t like my Voodoo5500 card so I turfed it and went back to 98SE.
That being said, I am running a GF3 now and I think I will buy the home edition after work and use it.
I have a FreeBSD box, a NetBSD box, a Redhat Linux box and my Win98 box. I’d much rather use my other boxes but there are some things, like games, that will only run on a Windows or Mac box. I’d get a Mac but I can’t afford one right now. In fact I do all my serious work on one of the *nix boxen. There are only 2 OS’s I have used that I rank lower than Windows, AS-400 and VOS, and both of them are used on mainframes.