[geeks] Im going to XP, wish me luck

[Dan Sikorski]

On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 15:06, Andrew Weiss wrote:
> Well this come from personal points of view but I will never knowingly 
> give my money to Microsoft... it's a simple civil protest.  (other 
> people's money is a different matter) Other companies fine... I love to 
> pay for good software.  I licensed Omniweb gladly.  I'd even have no 

Then your simple civil protest should include not using the software (or
at least not bitching that it doesn't work right for you BECAUSE you're
pirating it.)

>   Sun's Java VM has serious problems under XP.  Our office machines on 
> XP don't like it at all... XP is rife with bugs that just don't make 

If that's the case, i'll find out this afternoon.

> sense.  After several days of use they also start crashing explorer a 
> lot...i.e. trying to run things off CD-ROM.  Granted I don't know if it 
> is our other technicians ability to install software and fix bugs that 
> is the problem, but he seems quite competent with PC service and 
> printer service (although he is new to it... and we're talking Xerox 
> Phaser solid ink as well as color laser).  Win2K just works and has all 
> the newer stuff not in NT 4 that I think should have been in there from 
> the beginning... TS for admin, telnet service (although it's not that 
> useful), IIS without an option pack, better Services for Macintosh, 
> Direct X support for the latest DirectX not that sorry version 3 that 
> was useless...

As i said before, i'm more or less responsible for MANY windows XP
machines.  Nearly all of which are running an older application (written
for win95 i believe) with no problems.  In fact, that application has
seen a measurable increase in performance on windows XP vs. windows 98
on the same hardware.  (even with all the extra crap left on.)  Perhaps
it is your technician, i don't know.

	-Dan Sikorski