At 5:38 PM -0600 12/23/01, Sam Burrish wrote: I'll do some snipping here because Sam forgot some attributions :-(
<snip> > > You may be a bit behind however, on upgrades...before >> windoz had some real difficulty in upgrading, but I had >> no, none, problems going from 95 to 98 and to ME (Now >> that is on a relatively new machine but not brand new >> either,--Maybe in the past but not now are there those >> problems.) I don't know about XP, I have not purchased >> it yet but am planning too. Why anyone would update to ME is a mystery to me, but I digress >You must not work with PCs much. Last week, I was working on a win 95 box, >and needed to reinstall the OS. The drivers for all the major components >were made by random 3rd parties, most of which had gone out of business. It >took me all day to track down the drivers. I see people having conflicts >with their wireless NICs and the core OS, or one driver is conflicting and >corrupting another, etc. > >Also, Win XP sucks. Four of my clients had to reinstall it a week after they >got it. And most of the people I talked to tried it out for a few days, then >went back to windows 2000 Pro. XP is a cheap imitation of OS X, M$ modified >some GUI elements, but there is basically no new technology to make it >better than its ME predecessor. But ME is *NOT* its predecessor, XP like its predecessor 2K is built on NT, this basic oops in your argument sort of renders the rest meaningless, sigh. ME is the illogical conclusion to DOS, DOS was ok in its day <snip> What does any of this have to do with Mac networking, maybe the entire fred should be moved to <http://sparky.listmoms.net/lists/#platform-wars> Regards James ___________________________________________________________ James Sedgwick mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sedgwick & Son http://homepage.mac.com/jsedgwick/ Information System Specialists and proud Canadians -- MacNetwork is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... XRouter Pro | Share your DSL or cable modem between multiple computers! Dr. Bott | Only $199 <http://www.drbott.com/prod/MIH130.html> Now shipping! Farallon Wireless SkyLINE PCI Card for Mac Desktops! <http://www.farallon.com/le/skyline/pci/index.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> MacNetwork list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/macnet.html> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/macnetwork%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
