In the wee hour of 03:18 PM 4/29/01 -0600, Cindy Pavey bequeathed such
tales as these:
> From all I have heard and read, Windows XP will be a great OS. It will
> have one major flaw though for those of us who currently have computers
> and want to keep any of our hardware or software. It will NOT be
> backward compatible with much of anything.
I beg to differ: "the number one shipping criteria with Windows XP is
compatibility"-Jude Kavalam, program manager in Application Compatibility
Experience group at MS. Taking users from 95/98 to XP smoothly will be a
challenge, more so if they have experienced pains with attempting Me. With
Me's release MS did not have a high compatibility with current systems, I
believe the number was around 30-40% compatibility (with recently built
hardware) but with XP there is already a 90% compatible status with recent
hardware
> That is why it will be so stable. It won't have to juggle all those
> commands etc. to work with Win 98, Win 95, Win 3.1 or any of their
> programs or hardware. It is not MEANT to be backward compatible.
> That's great if you start fresh with a new system designed specifically
> to work with XP, but for most of us it will be a problem.
IT IS MEANT TO BE BACKWARDS COMPATIBLE:
The number one focus of XP is to the consumer, whereas 2000 was aimed at
corporations XP is aimed at the consumer. MS is targeting DirectX games
and 16bit DOS applications to work under XP. Of late MS has achieved
SB-compatible games to run stable in DOS boxes on XP in both the window and
full-screen mode.
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_foundations.asp
> Just my two cents worth.
>Cindy
Keep on reading, there's always more. Just when we think we have the full
story someone smacks us with some more. Paul Thurrot is very good with
keeping up with XP, even if he does do a lot of his work on a Mac G3 ;)
>My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what
>I start.
>So far today, I have finished 2 bags of chips and a Chocolate cake.
>I feel better already.
Peter Kaulback
I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work.
Thomas Edison (1847-1931)
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