Re: XP is great

In <Do6dnU3-G8SPacbfRVn-hw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, on 04/12/05
at 12:13 PM, Mark Jones <abuse@xxxxxxxxx> said:

> What the hell are you guys doing to corrupt your WinXP installs? I've
>heard bad reports about the SP2, but other than that XP is more stable
>and robust than 2K.
>PIC programmer, etc... I have ZERO complaints about XP's stability. It is
>by far, the most stable M$ OS I've ever seen. Where you guys are getting
>your piss and vinegar from, sounds more like an alterior motive than
>statistical data IMHO.

Let's take a look at that position..... Several hundred million users,
and you. You don't have problems, odds are some of those several million
users do. Therefore, the perception is that some people don't have
trouble, while many, many more have lots of troubles.

Why do you think that just because your system is without any problems,
everyone else's must also be that way? I have used win2K SP2 for years,
and it next to OS/2, it is the most reliable system I have ever used on a
PC. If you are trouble free, knock on wood, because that is an anomaly
for sure.

If you look at what they had to do to make XP out of Win2K, you will see
that, by design, XP will be more unstable than Win2K. Given the number of
installations, an occasional one will probably be fine, but many more will
suffer due to the inherent flaws created by turning a robust server into
a game machine.

I have used XP on a number of machines. From this perspective, it is not
as robust and reliable as Win2K. Everyone will see different results, so
its rather rude to imply that some people are doing anything wrong.

Some folks swear that Win98SE is the best OS, and for them, it may well
be.

Everyone's mileage will vary.

.

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