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RE: Microsoft XP

From: Christopher Spence <cspence_at_FuelSpot.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 06:45:44 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.00376D0B.20010824063029@fatcity.com>

One thing I noticed, M$ will not allow you to do redundancy raid (1, 5, 0+1) in Windows Professsional. It will fail the install. You can only seem to use Raid 0 (even hardware raid contorllers) some how it figures this out and forces you to use server. Sucks if you ask me.

"Do not criticize someone until you walked a mile in their shoes, that way when you criticize them, you are a mile a way and have their shoes."

Christopher R. Spence
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Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 6:59 PM
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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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