quatrix
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join:2005-02-11
Davie, FL
2 edits | reply to maartena
Re: final version will be on p2p soon
said by maartena  :People said the same thing about Windows XP and that they would stick with the 9x world or Win2k. I'm a full-time programmer and power user, and I still use 98SE without any problems. I've been using the same base set of files since 1996 -- installed 98 on top of 95 and 98SE on top of 98, copied everything to a new hard drive 4 or 5 times, switched motherboards/CPUs/cases twice and moved the existing hard drives over. I haven't reformatted or reinstalled in 10+ years. I use this PC 12+ hours a day and everything still runs smoothly, with a rare crash maybe once every 3 or 4 weeks. You just need to know how to maintain a computer. I'll upgrade only because Microsoft dropped Windows Update / patch support for ME and earlier, and newer versions of some apps such as Acrobat Reader and Media Player no longer work with 98 (they would probably run just fine but the companies don't want to support an older OS).
XP = 98 + a default theme with huge, ugly title bars and buttons that anyone with sense would change anyway |
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CrazyFingers
join:2003-10-01
Columbia, MO
| XP = 98 + a default theme with huge, ugly title bars and buttons that anyone with sense would change anyway
Um....no...not even close.
While I despise the draconian DRM crap in Vista just as much as the next sysadmin, your statement is utter rubbish, and I pity the people who depend on you for their system administration.
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nemo1966
join:2005-11-15
England
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How can you say:
I'm a full-time programmer and power user, and I still use 98SE without any problems
and then say
and I still use 98SE without any problems
???????????? If you are still using 98 then you aint much of either  
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Stevie Nicks
@ameritech.net
| Just like any restaurant that refers to itself as "a fine dining establishment" isn't, anyone who refers to themselves as "a power user", isn't one.
Funny that the MS bashers are striking up the band already, based on nothing. I've used Vista Ultimate--the official RC1 from the customer review program DVD--on a less-than-optimal laptop (2.2 GHz, 1 GB system RAM, 16 MB video RAM) and the only thing that slowed it down is the lack of proper video space. The functionality, however, is all there.
But, you'll never shut up the anti-Microsoft trolls...so just hit "ignore". |
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