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World's First XP System Sold
A reader writes "New zealands largest OEM PC Manufacturer, The PC Company sold the worlds first Windows XP system. Details can be found at this article on NZoom" And so, it begins.
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leaving the Auckland showroom at one minute after midnight with a brand new, Windows XP-ready machine.
I take this to mean people are actually standing in line for this? Isn't today's PC consumer a little smarter than they were in '95 and '98? Have we learned nothing? I mean, doesn't everybody read
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"You know why you do not see me styling wit my homies? Because I have no homies!!" -Mojo Jojo
At least the transition between Mac OS 9 and OS X was significant. I find it really lame that microsoft keeps releasing the same crap just so that people are pressured to buy an upgrade. Sure, maybe XP is all candy coated with a cooler gui, but nothing much has changed except for the fact that normal users have access to raw network sockets.
Microsoft claims that XP has better memory protection, better threading... I'm just waiting to see if any of this is true, or if XP has the same problems as 2k.
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I think it really is a sad day that you had to include that disclaimer ([Disclaimer: This message is for humor only and does not encourage piracy in any way nor does imply any resemblance to real facts.]). What ever happened to freedom?
"Not my manner of thinking but the manner of thinking of others has been the source of my unhappiness." - M
it could make time run backwards as you suggest :)
--- Hot Shot City is particularly good.
From the article: And so, it begins.
Don't you really mean: The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote.
Those who would give up liberty in exchange for security and DRM should switch to Microsoft Palladium!
The significant differences between Linux and Windows XP are very few. They aren't worth arguing. You can say "Oh, but the Linux kernel is prettier!" but it doesn't matter when both OSes are rock solid. And the stability of a PC OS mostly comes down to drivers as it. Run Linux with a poor video driver and you'll have endless headaches. Ditto for Windows XP. You can say that Windows XP is bloated and slow, but you can say the same of Linux + XWindows + KDE/Gnome as well.
So it all comes down to Windows XP being a Microsoft product and Linux being free, and that there is some software you can only get for one or the other. That's about all you can argue, though most people don't care.