Jay,
Unfortunately, you're wrong. That's the problem with all the misinformation
on the 'net.
It's 6-8 changes, depending on what you change, and it NEVER requires any
additional money, just a phone call to reregister. No matter how much you
change or upgrade, there is no new licensing and no more money.
I also think Infoworld is on drugs. Every test says it is faster than Win2K.
Tom
> 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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