Microsoft Philippines gave a seminar intro on the .Net
initiative some Saturdays ago. they gave away copies
of WinXP Candidate release 1 to some of my classmates
who attended their conference (same license as
always). From what they say - WinXP is much of a
memory and hard disk space hog, though it had a nice
GUI (the major selling point of M$ "OS"). They did
bother to hide some blatant errors (unlike Office XP
where it M$ didn't really hiding it at all) though I
still need to "test" it (write a random input program
to test kernel stability - make it crash the ultimate
goal).
The side-utilities did go fine, they say (like Windows
Media Player). More remains to be seen if this CR-1
would be anything like the $299 "investment" to be
released this 25 of October. Anyway, I won't run a
monster "OS" for monster machines in mainstream -
anything that can't run in my remaining P90 machine.
btw - their new RAD tools do make development easier.
It's a shame M$ closed its solutions within their
platform.
Paolo Falcone
UP Manila
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the next plane target - Microsoft Corp. Unfortunately
the plane was running windows - it didn't took off
--- Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I'm using Windows 2000 AS right now. And I hate to
> say this.. it's just as
> stable as my Red Hat Linux 7.1 desktop (although
> installing it was a major
> pain) and it "feels" more responsive!! of course
> that's because I measure
> responsiveness by the browser.. and Mozilla is
> notoriously sluggish.
>
>
> --
> Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Mosaic Communications, Inc.
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