Windows XP - The eXPerience Thus Far?

An Anonymous Coward asks: "So Windows XP has been out long enough for those of us in the IT field to have our managers, users, and vendors hitting us up for it (Redmond's marketing apparently worked). So, how has Windows XP affected your IT department and company thus far? Are you using it, or planning on using it? What made you decide to migrate? What problems have you run into, and what features have you found beneficial? Please leave out the anti-MS/pro-Linux rhetoric unless it is directly related to an issue you have with XP. Thanks!"

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Doesn't work as advertised

[uslinux.net]

What made you decide to migrate? What problems have you run into, and what features have you found beneficial?

So far we've had three executives upgrade for the Microsoft Personal Flight(tm) feature. Unforunately, all three have plummeted to their death when leaping from the building. Microsoft claims that will be fixed in SP2. In the mean time, we're hiring to fill their positions.

XP stole my goldfish, and unplugged my TV.

[Hobart]

I installed Windows XP Home Edition (upgrade)

It re-wrote my hard drive. Not only that, but it scrambled disks that were close to my computer. It recalibrated my refrigerator's coolness setting so all my ice cream went melty. It demagnetized the strips on all my credit cards, screwed up the tracking on my television and used subspace field harmonics to scratch any CD's I tried to play.

(Actually, it installed a bit nicer than Win2K, but is full of more stuff that needs turning off. I moved from 95 to NT4, so I never experienced the hell of 98/ME, but I sure don't miss it. It's no more tedious to turn off the candy stuff than the installation of any of today's media players. The Terminal Services [switch-user] stuff is pretty neat. And for $99 I grabbed Works Suite 2002 -- comes with Word XP that has neat speech-recognition stuff. The Philips Toucam Pro webcam drivers bundled still suck. The "restore point" thingy saved me a lot of hassle from a bad Intel video driver update. The ability to turn off the pagefile is neat. The new sound schemes are annoying. MSPAINT supporting GIF, JPEG, and PNG is nice.)

(ahem) Windows XP will give you Dutch Elm disease. It will leave the toilet seat up. It will make a batch of Methamphetamines in your bathtub and then leave bacon cooking on the stove while it goes out to chase gradeschoolers with your new snowblower.