[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Okay, okay, now that I've used XP a couple of weeks (or is it > less than that?), I have to admit I've had a lot less > problems with it than I did with Me. > Smoother bootup and shut down. No funny things happening > (though I didn't have that MANY funny things happening).
Every manufacturer, at least once, produces a new product which is worse than the one it is supposed to supersede. Ford had the Edsel. Microsoft had ME, which crashed more often than a Ferrari with three wheels. As I understand it, an operating system is launched as a catch all product; it has to be easy to operate, cover all the angles of the vast spectrum of every possible computer use and be backward compatible with older software. As with digital cameras being able to use older lenses, it is awash with compromises. We have three computers, one running XP Pro, one laptop running W3.1 (which will go very soon for another laptop - a Mac for me) and an older machine which runs NT4 (my favourite, fussy about accepting software, yet to crash). My next move from XP Pro will be to Linux. Malcolm
