It would be *totally* legal on MS' side to prosecute every littel joe & jane that installed thier OS on his/her computer without a license.
It would also be an insanity, because it would ruin their image, and court fee for each of those traials are higher than the license, anyway.
ASPI: No comment.
Registry: That is not a job for the registry, that is a job for the hardware detection stuff. I think that it works as you describe it already, too.
Clean system: XP comes with WMP8, not 7. And no one is forcing you to use it.
Remote control:
That is just Terminal Services.
It's no worse than remote X, you know.
So far, I'm not aware of any backdoors in TS.
MSN Messager, disable it, it's a three step procedure, you know:
Open regedit, go to HKCU\software\microsoft\windows\current version\run\ and delete the entry for MSN Messenger.
IE3 was as good as NS3, but people used NS because that was what they knew.
IE4 was *much* better than NS4, which was why users moved.
You've to offer much more than just "it's just as good" to make a user move.
SQL Server - Co-developed with SysBase, no connection to IBM and/or Oracle
DR-DOS - a beta warning message that said "Error 34243: call support", come *on*.
Stac - MS bought a patent that infringed on a patent that Stac bought. No stealing done here.
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You must *really* love the critical update in ME, it checks for updates *every five minutes*, so you will be immediately protected.
It took about 6 - 8 months for SP1 to be released.
SP2 was released today.
No, you just labaled yourself "unabled to recognized sarcasm"
Exactly 0 days, 0 hours, 0 seconds, 0 milliseconds, want me to be more precise?
Sorry, not 90%, just > 86%r .h tml
http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2001/May/browse
Really? I can download IE for free, how am I paying for it?
Windows 9x (95,98,ME) all cost 209$ new version, 109$ upgrade.
You didn't pay more for ME then you did for 95/98, so how come I'm paying for it?
No, speaking from economic and business standpoint, it's much better to sell 1000 copies at 1000$ each then sell 2000 copies @ 250$ each.
It would be *totally* legal on MS' side to prosecute every littel joe & jane that installed thier OS on his/her computer without a license.
It would also be an insanity, because it would ruin their image, and court fee for each of those traials are higher than the license, anyway.
IE is *already* at over 90% market share, strange, I don't see anyone paying a penny for it.
A> You had a support contract.
B> We aren't talking mainframe here, you know.
ASPI: No comment.
Registry: That is not a job for the registry, that is a job for the hardware detection stuff. I think that it works as you describe it already, too.
Clean system: XP comes with WMP8, not 7. And no one is forcing you to use it.
No, that is the job of the kernel, an OS is much more than just that.
No, it was a better browser, faster, more robust, etc.
IE4 was already taking over NS4 marketshare before win98 was even RTM.
They are.
You've to choose advance mode to get to the feature list, but you can choose not to enter them.
> Can I unload the GUI (from XP and MacOSX) components so my games runs faster?
On MacOSX, yes, but I don't know if any games would run without it.
>Does it have a powerful console?
Yes, they added a lot of stuff.
>Can I trim it down to less than 100mb?
Yes, XP Pro is usually below 100MB as it is, but you can trim it down further.
> Can I strip the OS to it's very essential components to save on diskspace/memory?
Yes, it's called XP embedded
Very good post, I wish I had mod points (but then I couldn't post to this thread, ouch!)
Very easy.
You run MSConfig, go to startup, and remove what you don't want.
So you are *GREATLY* disturbs by ssh, telnet(well, rightly so), remote X, etc?
Win2K & NT (servers for 2K, special version for NT) had this capacity for quite a while.
This is just Terminal Services, and easily disabled, too.
Remote control:
That is just Terminal Services.
It's no worse than remote X, you know.
So far, I'm not aware of any backdoors in TS.
MSN Messager, disable it, it's a three step procedure, you know:
Open regedit, go to HKCU\software\microsoft\windows\current version\run\ and delete the entry for MSN Messenger.
See, simple, isn't it?
IE3 was as good as NS3, but people used NS because that was what they knew.
IE4 was *much* better than NS4, which was why users moved.
You've to offer much more than just "it's just as good" to make a user move.
Nothing is embedded into the kernel, maybe into the shell, but that is another matter.
Go to advance mode in setup, you can choose individual items there, and you can always uninstall it later.
And it's *easy* to remove things that start on startup.
Um, Dell & couple of others used 2K (on production machines) before it was out.
Around Beta 3 time, IIRC.
No, they won't.
And it's a piece of cake to remove anything that starts on system startup/user logon, you know.
The 1995 conecnt decree *spesifically* allowed MS to integrate products.
They *aren't* breaking the law.
SQL Server - Co-developed with SysBase, no connection to IBM and/or Oracle
DR-DOS - a beta warning message that said "Error 34243: call support", come *on*.
Stac - MS bought a patent that infringed on a patent that Stac bought. No stealing done here.