On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 08:07:39PM -0600, Tom Scales wrote:
> As for registering XP, it is a common myth that it sends personal
> information. It does not. It is just a reasonable attempt to slow down
> piracy, something, as a software developer, I support. Once registered,
> which is painless, you can make quite a number of changes without having to
> reregister, which is also quite painless.
4 changes in 30 days.
As for "reasonable attempt", I don't buy it, for one reason: M$ defines
piracy too narrowly for my taste. If I only use one computer, but upgrade
it, I still have to buy a new copy. That's just not right.
> As for the Mac, I suppose I could take a step backwards in time to an
> inferior operating system on a slow processor, but I don't really think I
> will <g>.
I've been playing with a Power Mac 7600/132 with MacOS 8.1...interesting,
and not all that slow. Even running M$IE 5.
Wanna talk slow? InfoWorld says that XP is *best case*, 11lower than
Win2K on the same hardware. I don't consider that a feature.
I'll keep running Win2K on my Windows boxes until forced to do something
different.
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