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| Thread ID: 37262 | 2003-09-02 03:42:00 | Why Move to XP? | Winston001 (3612) | Press F1 |
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| 172440 | 2003-09-02 03:42:00 | It seems that a lot of members are happily using Windows 9x. All new systems appear to come with XP - no choice. Is this good? What are the advantages of XP over, say, 98SE? What would be the downside of buying a new computer or building one and installing 98SE? Cheers Winston001 |
Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 172441 | 2003-09-02 03:47:00 | XP more secure, more stable. | robsonde (120) | ||
| 172442 | 2003-09-02 03:51:00 | Ho Winston I too was extremely happy with 98SE. However, I help out as a tutor with SeniorNet (for the oldies) and most of the old chucks coming along with their recently acquired systems were using XP. Bit difficult trying to teach on XP when my only experience ranged from DOS through 3.1 to Win98. So, upgraded the old OS to XP PRO. I'm still using many older programs such as Works 4.5, several DOS related programs and Office2000. The main benefits appears to be stability as the system virtually never (well hardly ever) falls over. |
Scouse (83) | ||
| 172443 | 2003-09-02 04:00:00 | You've got MS Support, since MS is quickly dropping support for 9x. Which means no updates or fixes will be released. Win98SE may not support the latest hardware, and soon developers will drop their support for OS that have dropped support from the vendor. In some aspects I preferred Win98SE, but I could still make XP work the way I wanted it to. XP replaced Win2k Pro, but not straight away, it took about a few months before I knew I could ditch Win2k Pro. I am now trying to ditch XP and convert over to Linux, but I am slowly working my way towards it, won't see a complete changeover yet as I feel I have months before I'll be able to make Linux work how I want it too. |
Kame (312) | ||
| 172444 | 2003-09-02 04:00:00 | XP is based on the NT kernel which is far more reliable than 9x, XP now has more support than 9x, XP has better drivers than 9x, XP has wizards etc that help you through the computing experience (this can arguably be a negative point dependant on what kind of user you are), XP has inbuilt features that on 9x would require lots of 3rd party applications (anti competitive behaviour? who cares?) XP can handle newer hardware and technologies better, XP can handle more than 512meg of ram by default.... the list goes on 9x is outdated, MS doesnt completely support it anymore, driver releases for 9x are slowing down to a non existant release rate, and 9x has a lovely habit of crashing. If you get a new computer, dont even consider installing 9x on it - you're wasting your time. 9x probably wont have decent drivers for half the hardware anyway |
whetu (237) | ||
| 172445 | 2003-09-02 04:13:00 | I understand MS support for W98 ceases mid-2004, so there appears to be little option on new equipment | rodb (1561) | ||
| 172446 | 2003-09-02 04:49:00 | why waste money on a new os when you have one that works ok. its getting very hard to buy 98se (new) these days so you might not have any choice. by the time XP gets to sp2 it might be time to look at upgradeing (or even wait till the next os ;-) ). why bother with new bugs, w2k and 98se have been fairly well hammered out over the years. |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 172447 | 2003-09-02 04:51:00 | > I understand MS support for W98 ceases mid-2004, so > there appears to be little option on new equipment You could try Win ME :) |
stu140103 (137) | ||
| 172448 | 2003-09-02 05:00:00 | I agree largely with tweak'e. I have XP but havent tried it yet as I will have to get new hard drives to put it on. Im more than happy with 98SE, not crash prone as far as Im concerned. It does all I want at this time, and of course it has DOS. Can't imagine anyone managing without DOS :) Some of my best elecronics and circuit board programs are DOS. Some silly things like you must have XP for msn messenger to work with audio/video, but thats Micro$oft for you, trying in everyway to force XP upgrade. Yahoo messenger workaudio/video with 98SE though. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 172449 | 2003-09-02 05:29:00 | > What are the advantages of XP over, say, 98SE? Well there is lots more to play with for a start. ;-) > What would be the downside of buying a new computer or building one and installing 98SE? Unless you have a full version of Win 98SE that will be removed from a retired PC you will probably still pay through the nose for Win 98 considering it is old now. May as well pay a bit more and have the support of the newer OS. |
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