RE: Microsoft XP

Beware of upgrading 98 to 2k. OS works fine, but games don't work anymore :(. I had to restore back to 98. Thats what you get when you pirate games, no updates :)

>>> kimberly.smith_at_gmd.fujitsu.com 08/23/01 06:58PM >>>
I have not seen XP myself but a co-worker likes it. He was running 2000, which is what I run. What issues did you have installing W2K? It was pretty straight forward. The only issue I had was my motherboard is a RAID board and I had to use the drivers supplied. I keep going past the section where they were prompting me to switch to the a: drive without noticing a couple of times before I noticed.

You can also upgrade 98 with 2000. I did a couple of machines at the office with no issues whatsoever. Just make sure you got drivers for 2000 before hand since you computer is new.

I don't know what other people will say but so far its been very stable for me, both at work and home.

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Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 2:52 PM
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well screw that!! They can keep XP, I am staying away from it now!! You know, I just built myself a sweet monstosity of a machine at home. I installed Windows 98 because I have it and it was easier than figuring out how to install win2k. Now I am so frustrated with the instability of it that I am almost depressed. Oh what to do.....

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Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 5:40 PM
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Has anyone heard of all the troubles that the new version of Microsoft is having getting released ??

One of the ugliest things I see is their new licensing scheme. They make sure you are using it only on a specific machine by having its functionality based on hardware items on your system. This configuration has to be registered either by phone or by internet about a month after it is installed or everything stops working. If you change something big, like a Network Card or cpu chip, your system will not boot because it thinks you have installed it on a different machine.

Anyone have options on the new XP ?

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