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Road Runner Doesn't Do XP
PerlStalker writes: "Internet News has an article up that mentions, among other things, that Road Runner (owned primarily by AOL/TW) will not support XP. From the article: 'Road Runner, the second-largest cable Internet service provider (ISP) in the nation with more than 1.4 million subscribers, does not support the controversial new operating system (OS) for its customers and will not support its use on the cable network.'" Note that this doesn't stop customers from connecting to Road Runner from XP systems, but until their staff is trained specifically, Road Runner won't help them with technical problems arising from that combination.
since there is no software in existence that goes by the name "Word XP" or "Excel XP" (I would assume that you're uninformedly referring to Word 2002 and Excel 2002), then the only remaining possibilities are Windows XP and Office XP. And since there is not a single ISP in the world that offers support for any version of Office, then it is VERY safe to assume that the headline is not referring to that software package. Thus, we are left with Windows XP.
Alternately, you could use that (undeserved) gift of REASON to figure the whole thing out for yourself. Whatever.
The main difference is that most XP users probably wont be knowledgeable about their systems or knowledgable enough to lie. ... Right... because we ALL know that ALL Windows' users are idiots, right?
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Why bother posting such irrelevant news? Is it because it gives the impression that XP is not gaining any popularity? or that MS did something non-standard which makes RR unusable?
Maybe slashdot should post articles about all the products/services that don't 'officially' support linux (even though they can be used with it). It seems as though you guys are running out of ways to convince your followers that linux isn't losing ground to MS. Go round up some more web server benchmarks...