On 9/18/07, Rick Funderburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 9/18/07, Carl Lowenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Some of us have been lucky enough to have mostly avoided Windows all
> > these years, and don't have anything newer than W98 second edition.
> > And some swap-meet CDs that don't have authorization keys.
> >
>
> You should have done it the opposite way. Windows ME and earlier were
> not exactly good or stable, but Windows 2000 and XP have been pretty
> good. Add to that the fact that there is tons of open source for
> Windows now, and there has never been a better time to be using
> Windows than the present (perhaps just pre-Vista).
>
> I'm not saying that Windows better than Linux, or even any good, but
> if you haven't used Windows since 98, maybe you probably have an
> inaccurate view of the quality of the product.
I don't say that I have never used Windows newer than 98se. Just that
the only computer that I ever bought that came with a Windows
installation CD was 98se.
I have a Thinkpad with XP Pro as one of its dual-boot OS's, but it
came to me as a used machine, preinstalled, with not even a Restore
partition or Restore CDs.
carl
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