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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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| 172450 | 2003-09-02 05:43:00 | The reason people are using 98 etc,is because that is what they bought years ago and like most things,people hate change. I think it is safe to say Billy didn't have 1000 programmers beavering away on XP just to keep them in a job. |
Thomas (1820) | ||
| 172451 | 2003-09-02 05:55:00 | > XP more secure, more stable . > Ditto . More things to fiddle with too! I luuuuurve XP *mwah* |
Greg S (201) | ||
| 172452 | 2003-09-02 06:44:00 | XP is certainly more stable but I doubt that it is more secure there are so many flaws in it to be exploited that it will be years before they are all rectified, witness the number of patches that have come out some that havbe created more problems than thay have solved . 98SE is a mature O/S with very little overheads installs on 300 megs and flies on any modern PC plus theres heaps of 3rd pasrty software that works well on it free online . M/Soft are pulling support on older O/S asap so they can make more profits from selling new bloated software to the masses while trying to tie up the market and become a monopoly that no one can stand up to eg Media Player 9 is so intrusive it tries to phone home every time you use it ,their WMA format for music is proprietry and will be heavily protected so user pays will be the final solution for M/Soft products Most applications I use are 3rd party they perform much better than any packaged software from M/Soft , innovation and new research cannot exist in a monopoly company driven by the need for profit alone . |
kiwibeat (304) | ||
| 172453 | 2003-09-02 07:00:00 | I could not consider going back to Win9x now. Compared to XP or 2k it is just not in the running, unless you're low on RAM. | -=JM=- (16) | ||
| 172454 | 2003-09-02 07:18:00 | Mines 2k pro and I'll stick to that untill I get linux to a point when I'm confidant that I can communicate and share info with other people running MS products (business-wise) and I'm up to speed with the OS itself and associated apps (which I'm not at the mo). I'm a little suspicious of the more intrusive XP and don't see any justification of the expense to move to it from 2k. Most pre-built puters makers still offer a choice of 2k pre-loaded. Cheers Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 172455 | 2003-09-02 09:52:00 | > 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. $30 from Trademe for Win98SE when we bought a copy for a PC I built from the CyberCafe... Expensive? Only compared to Linux my friend... ;-) |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 172456 | 2003-09-02 10:24:00 | I moved to XP ONLY because hyper-threading wasn't supported on any other OS. If I had my way, I would use 2KPro... Lo. |
Lohsing (219) | ||
| 172457 | 2003-09-02 10:29:00 | Im gonna put it down and say I'd stick with Win2K... Its "Mature"! ;-) |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 172458 | 2003-09-02 10:34:00 | I threw win98 on my puter a few weeks back, purely out of nostalgia, within 10 minutes it was refusing to gel with my TV card drivers and was insisting on asking for non-existent files..........aaaahhh, the fond memories.... And yeah,a new copy of win98 is the same price if not more then a copy of xp home,But if i was starved for cash and already had a copy i'd live with 98,although,if i was starved for cash i dont know if i'd be buying a computer.... |
metla (154) | ||
| 172459 | 2003-09-02 11:40:00 | Its the old story, the next version comes out, has all sorts of new features, a flash new look, and all sorts of secret stuff under the bonnet that makes it much more powerful( of course the build quality is a bit sus to start with, as usual). Also the new model also has so many automatic features that the old model does not have, (so much more convenient for the maker to have control than the owner). etc etc Sounds like a new car salesman?? Or the Capitalist Economic Model? Off the bandwaggon. Depends what you do on your computer, are you pushing the boundaries of your O/S with large dataflows etc, do you use Microsoft support a lot, are you not interested in optimising and stabilizing your present O/S, or find it lacking REAL features you NEED to get the job done? If you do, go for it, otherwise you may need to be at the cutting edge of technology (retail that is). I suspect for the rest of us the old one would do for a while, unless the hardware breaks down. Of course the new box would have twice the specs of last years model( It has to, to run the new O/S)!! Back to me old mate (AMDK6-266)! :D |
Rod ger (316) | ||
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