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Summary: Does not run Linux programs
Review: This might be a slick looking operating system, but I see a few problems with it:* Incompatibility with Linux means that you are locked out of literally thousands of free software programs available on that platform * Lack of source code means that if there is a problem, you depend on Microsoft to fix it. Or not. In other words, you don't have much of a say Consider instead a purchase of Linux such as Red Hat, SuSE or Mandrake. They are available from Amazon and have neither of the limitations mentioned above.
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Summary: XP or bust?
Review: Try before you buy Is what I say..
I have windows ME, but wont be upgrading for a long time I think well unless the next upgrade is better than this one.
My parents have XP on theirs and it is terrible! come on Microsoft, are you really that desperate for MORE money??
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Summary: Not a must .. but the overall software is good
Review: I am a power user of win2k and just wanted to upgrade to xp to see how it worked. The UI and everything is cool and the apps work great. Not a required upgrade unless you want to be on the bleeding edge
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Summary: Tips before buying
Review: A few of things to remember about XP. 1. Microsoft left off dual-monitor support on the Home Edition, which is a shame since monitor prices are so cheap these days. You have to get the Pro addition to gain this luxury. Why? Good question, Windows 98 supported dual monitor fine. 2. As usual, Microsoft invades your privacy. The system will not let you un-install Windows Messenger unless you modify the registry. Amazingly, if you delete the actual system file for Windows Messenger, it will re-create itself. Uninstalling it isn't difficult to do if you do a search on the web, but you will never find this out with Microsoft's "help" program. 3. Don't install this unless you have a fairly new machine. I really like this OS, but it does tax the system quite a bit. You really need at least 256 MB or memory for it to work well. It practically gobbles memory. I am amazed that over 200 MB of memory can be consumed by doing absolutely nothing in Windows XP. 4. Overall, I really like XP. I would recommend it for all new and fairly-new machines. I just wish Microsoft would take out product activation (annoying) and quit forcing Messenger on everybody.
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Summary: Reliability/Stability very overrated
Review: I upgraded from Windows ME (possibly the worst version of Windows ever made -- or at least I thought it was) to XP Pro. It worked fine for a few hours. Then, one time, for no reason, it decided to stop working. Explorer just would not respond, and no matter how many repairs I did from the cd, it wouldn't work. The reliability on this product is also overrated as the individual processes seem to crash just as often, the only difference is that the entire OS won't crash as often. Even the new interface is really just annoying and counter-productive. My suggestion, get a Macintosh and run OSX. Or you could also get Linux. But if you must use Windows, *GET WINDOWS 2000 PROFESSIONAL EDITION*, I have been running 2000 since my xp encounter and it works surprisingly well.
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Summary: Dont' be fooled: it's still Windows.
Review: Bottom line, off the top: if you have Win98/95, upgrade. If you have Win2K, stay right where you are. For all the pretty screens and rounded buttons that MS slaps on their products, WinXP is still Windows, and still prone to the same issues that plague the many versions of Windows. It's still somewhat unstable (NO OS is crashproof, by the way), insecure, and a complete resource hog. They have cleaned up the networking components (the Connection Sharing piece is very inuitive), and while the GUI is nice, I noticed definite slowdowns. Value-adds: IE 6 is more of the same. Windows Media 8 is invasive (it logs every piece of media you play) bloatware. It was great around version 5, when it was thin, fast, and played music without complication. Use Winamp or Sonique. Built-in CD copying is kludgy at very best; use a third-party app for truly efficient, fast CD-writing. All in all? Not bad. Win2K with more hand-holding and more CPU-choking graphics...
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Summary: Good but can get better
Review: XP is good, but can get better. It doesn't crash, it just freezes and them comes up with a sign that says, let Microsoft know the problem and automatically sends a message to someone in cyberspace. Can you imagine millions of such messages a day hitting Renton, Washington? Forget it. They can do better and probably will.
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Summary: not bad for microsoft, but could be better
Review: The people at Microsoft are not idiots. They saw that the public was not going to buy the whole' win 98 thing anymore which still has 10+ year old technology. Instead they quickly came back with a winnt 5.1 version with a changed color gui and hyped it a lot and now we have winXP. WinXP is the best operating system MONEY can BUY! However, the ironic thing is that LINUX looks better (KDE/GNOME desktop enviroments) runs faster, is WAY more stable, has cooler programs, and guess what, it's absolutely FREE! The linux you see in stores is sold for a price, but the distributors are required to make it available online for a download. So the point is, WinXP is a pretty good OS, but you'd be an idiot to overlook a better OS that costs hundreds less. Microsoft has the resources to make good products, but the money goes to legal departments/hype/marketing/destroying other companies instead of where it belongs, in developing good software.
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Summary: Don't understand the hype
Review: I want to state that I don't unserstand all the hype about XP.
Windows 98, Windows ME and Windows 2000 are commonly used by everyone and even companies; for Microsoft to come up with a new OS which is not far behind Windows 2000 which came out around 99' if I am not mistaken. It would have been better for Microsoft to market XP five years from now.
So now the flaws, I purchased a new pc, and was not offer a choice between windows 2000 or XP. SO I'm stuck with XP anyway.
I hooked up my all-in-one printer by HP to my pc; XP installed the new hardware, I did a test print to make sure that it works, which it did, the very next day when I went to print a document
it started to print and then stopped printing. I made sure that the usb cable was connected and all the other connections, they were fine. I checked the device manager to see if there was a hardware problem, none. So each time I need to use my printer I have to delete the printer, restart the pc, then turn it off plug in the printer cable and turn the pc back on again, just so the priner will work; OF course HP still has not came up with an updated device driver for this and they say that it could be a problem with the usb cable and to check the device manager.
Now here is the thing, on my notebook it has ME and I DO NOT have any problem at all with the all-in-one printer; ZERO.
Plus the software that is already out there is not fully compatable with XP as well as all of the hardware that is already out there prior to XP coming out to the market.
So hold off on buying XP, it is better off if you get either
Windows 98, ME or 2000. One more thing the service patches for XP are on hold pending the legal issue between Microsoft and DOJ.
I'm planning on formatting the entire harddrive and installing either ME or 2000.
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Summary: Windows Xp Home Edition
Review: It is a product where if you know how to work it, its amazing, opposed to if you are a mac user, or are new to windows operating system, its tough to work with.
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