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Then I must have been illegal since 1995 (Reply to this comment)
by dragon1
Since then I usually dual-booted the previous version be it 3.x/95 until now with Me/XP. By the way Windows starting with 95 has been able to dual boot_enabled by Windows itself.
As far as XP having spyware,where is it???
Not in activation- generated by your computer from the id's of your hardware-isp-software
if you want to read about it goto Paul Thurott website at http://www.winsupersite.com
also there is a interview with MS on this at the Windows 2000 magazine site.
Michael L Hereid Sr
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May 20 '01
8:07 pm PDT
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Re: Re:+had+to+rate+it+helpful (Reply to this comment)
by benho
You're right, you were fairly fair, I just think most people don't need more than one version of an OS. I suppose I am always one to want the newest and latest and greatest.
Then again, I do understand the impulse to stay with the old and familiar. (It was very hard giving up DOS in favor of windows) or heck to even give up the old line editor in GW-Basic.
But in Microsoft's defense, they want to present an image of their company in a certain way, and they also don't want to deal with more complex support issues, and they are try to make life easier on developers, who then don't have to worry about older platforms.
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May 18 '01
7:15 am PDT
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Re: Re:+had+to+rate+it+helpful (Reply to this comment)
by benho
You're right, you were fairly fair, I just think most people don't need more than one version of an OS. I suppose I am always one to want the newest and latest and greatest.
Then again, I do understand the impulse to stay with the old and familiar. (It was very hard giving up DOS in favor of windows) or heck to even give up the old line editor in GW-Basic.
But in Microsoft's defense, they want to present an image of their company in a certain way, and they also don't want to deal with more complex support issues, and they are try to make life easier on developers, who then don't have to worry about older platforms.
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May 18 '01
7:04 am PDT
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Re: had+to+rate+it+helpful (Reply to this comment)
by NetDanzr
Well, it's fair if you think that't the rating the article deserved. Let me just clarify a few points:
1. I did not attack Microsoft and talk about other software standards; I was discussing several versions of the same standard by the same company.
2. Yesterday, I visited the OS section of eBay and found out that everybody selling any Windows OEM version always included the hard drive it was installed on, "to comply with Microsoft rules". I guess that supports my main point.
3. To be fair to Microsoft, they still offer Windows 98 on their Web site, even though buying it is a major pain, as they try to push you into buying WinMe several times in the process. I bought my Win98 just two days ago, as the computer I ordered is coming with WinMe.
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May 17 '01
8:16 am PDT
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had to rate it helpful (Reply to this comment)
by benho
just because it falls a bit into the habit of calling the unfamiliar bad. i've been in too many religious debates among the merits of various computing standards, and the sin that we all suffer is that we make value judgements based on what we are familiar with not what is necessarily better or worse.
otherwise, I thought it was great, and given all the other VH's, one H probably wouldn't matter much anyway.
(And I am almost positive you can turn off the feature where not all menu choices are shown if you don't use them. You can in Office 2000, and I did so right away. I agree, I find it annoying, but at the same time, i recognize that is largely because it is unfamiliar.)
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May 10 '01
1:29 pm PDT
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Re: Spyware+is+a+loaded+word.. (Reply to this comment)
by NetDanzr
Actually, John Dvorak, who is one of the most respected computing columnists, recently wrote that he switched from the MS Office suite to a comparable one by a Czech company, Software 602, and asked everybody to do the same... So I guess it's starting; that could also explain why Microsoft freaked out last week and announced war on open-source software...
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May 07 '01
8:32 am PDT
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Spyware is a loaded word.. (Reply to this comment)
by apoeze
Good review. Would have liked mention of OS 'editions'. Wonder how much more MS 'medicine' we need to make us sick.
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May 05 '01
6:16 am PDT
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