Win XP and repartitioning

[Jeremy Fowler]

Well MaximumPC Magazine gave WindowsXP a perfect 10 and a Kick-Ass award in the
November (Must-Have Hardware) issue. They claim it's Microsoft's best OS ever.

What we like: Win2000 stability and WinME game support combine with great
all-around performance to make a must-have OS upgrade.

What we hate: Inevitable driver incompatibilities hinder almost any new OS, and
we're still a bit concerned with the annoyance that Product Activation may
bring.

Then again MaximumPC is nothing what it used to be. Every issue I get the
feeling that they've been bought and editor/writer integrity has been
compromised. They used to be a really good magazine back in the day when they
were called Boot. Ever since they merged with Home PC, they just haven't been
the same. I still subscribe though, I need something to read when I'm on the
shitter. ;-) Too bad the stopped printing Maximum Linux, I enjoyed that mag a
lot.

-Jeremy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Densmore [mailto:DensmoreB at ctbsonline.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 9:32 AM
> To: zscoundrel; Jonathan Hutchins
> Cc: kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: RE: Win XP and repartitioning
>
>
> Ok, so many people think ME is a piece of ****. Well of course it is.
> Secondly every report I read says the same thing about XP. I have a copy
> of 3.11,95,98,NT4 and 1.01. I have never run 98, I did install it once.
> I have a laptop that dual boots to 95 (that what came on it, with all
> the patches for ThinkPads), so that I can do work stuff on when needed
> (it also does my business cards for the time being). BTW the only
> Windoze version that never crashed on my was 1.01, it ran in real mode.
> It really doesn't matter which version of Winblows you use, they all
> bite. Never seen XP, so I can't speak from experience. And don't care.
>
> <rant>
> <soapbox>
> A few errors I note in your rant.
>
> > <misty-eyed rant delivered by wistful old fogey>
> > I am an anachronism.  I still remember the days before
> > Microsoft tried
> > to take over the world when EVERYONE shared their best ideas.  After
> > all, where do you think DOS came from???  A band of scruffy losers
> > working out of someone's garage sure didn't.
> >  They just swiped the best
> > parts of two other popular OS'es and sold it to IBM who was
> M$ paid $10k for DOS, the last piece of software they bought (marginal,
> they knew it was worth a whole lot more), everything else they stole
> (almost).
>
> > so wrapped
> > up in internal politics that they couldn't tell the
> > difference between
> > microchips and poptato chips, but know they wanted to get a
> > small piece
> > of the micro-computer business.  (They succeeded - they now
> > have a very
> > small piece of the PC market!)
> Sorry these guys know a great deal about microchips and all other kinds
> of chips. this is almost like saying that Lucent(AKA Bell Labs, AKA
> AT&T, AKA Ma Bell) doesn't know jack about transistors.
> By the way the CPU microchip wasn't created by the four guys who formed
> Intel, but by the guy who got a patent on it, and they worked for him in
> his garage (yes literally). They quit, stole his patented idea, and
> formed Intel.
>
>
> > Perhaps open source software is not as flashy.  It surely
> > doesn't have
> > the PR budget that 'doze enjoys, but it is less buggy because
> > the person
> > who discovers the bug can actually FIX it.  With the 'doze
> > software, the
> > only thing you can do is exploit the bug.  Used to be, if you
> > publicized
> > the bug, you would get a vaguely worded nasty letter from the
> > manufacture politely telling you to cease and desist and they would
> > publicly deny the bug as long as they could.  Then they would
> > 'claim' to
> > work on a fix, but of course there would be no notice when
> > the bug-fix
> > was released.  It didn't really matter though, because by
> > that time, the
> > next over-hyped release would hit the shelves with a hand full of
> > semi-new features and a basket-full of brand new bugs for
> > people to run
> > out and pay too much for. . .
> > </misty-eyed rant delivered by wistful old fogey>
> Sorry Open Source software has plenty of bugs too. GIMP crashed on me 5
> times Sunday. It the kernel that is more stable (plus a lot of other
> good things). Yes I could fix GIMP if I had a month to figure it out.
>
>
> I love Linux don't get me wrong, but I'm also not delusional enough yet
> to think it is the panacea of Oses.
> </rant>
> </soapbox>
>
> So much for not starting an OS war. ;)>
> Oh,well. This is why I refrain from politics and religion. But Linux is
> a religion to me and I happen to be a realistic zealot, with a little
> pessimism (or is it pragmatism) mixed in.
>
> Peace Brethren,
> Brian
>
>