At our school the only computer running XP at the moment is in the lower
grade classroom. They also have software running on it that wouldn't run
on Win98 SE. I am using it as a test computer to see if we should upgrade
our other OS to it in the rest of the school. It also automatically found
the network (peer to peer with automatic addresses) we were running as well
as any printers located on the network. So far, so good. But like you, I
don't like the registration process.
Gregg
Volkhart wrote:
Yo,
on Sat, 3 Nov 2001 23:42:29 +0100, Hans van Veluwen wrote:
>Same experience I had when I upgraded from Win98 SE (which died on me when I
>tried to install Office 2000 on it) to Win2000. Just about every piece of
>hardware was identified and installed properly. Win98 allways gave me hard
>times by letting me manually install and configure the graphic adapter, SCSI
>card, printer, ....
This
is a 16-bit application named "Languages of the world" for which there is no
32-bit upgrade available - at least I can't find one, though I've tried real
hard. I need this program for my work, and an operating system that doesn't
run it is simply unusable for me. So I'm back to Win98 SE. I wonder whether
XP is more backward-compatible than 2000. Anyway, I don't like the way they
_force_ you to register your copy of XP; I think when I buy a piece of
software it is _my_ decision whether I want the manufacturer to have my
personal data or not, and this bothers me enough to keep me from even trying
an upgrade to XP.
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