October 26th, 2006
Another 5th Birthday This Week — Happy Birthday, Windows XP
By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews
The iPod had its 5th birthday earlier this week, but there’s another 5th birthday as well. This week, Windows XP turns five. And despite its maligned image, especially security-wise. there’s no denying it was a major step up from Windows NT, 2000 and 98 / Me.
For a child, one’s fifth birthday is an exciting time, full of precious moments and limitless promise. For an operating system, coming up to one’s fifth birthday is a different matter entirely. By the time they reach this milestone, most operating systems have long since been retired or replaced by the Next Big Thing, often an updated version of themselves. For Windows XP, which is celebrating its fifth birthday this week, the big question is this: why has it taken so long for Microsoft to come up with a successor? Source: Ars Technica
We Say: Yes, the big question is certainly what’s taken Vista so long. But the fact that we are still using XP and still using it well shows it had some good technology underneath the covers. Will Vista prove a compelling upgrade, or will people continue to use XP as long as possible? Time will tell.
degustibus says:
I don’t see the XP adavantages. I’m very happy w/ Win2000, run it (as well as Win98SE) on most of my machines except the notebooks that came native with XP.
(Tried Vista, hate it, eyecandy)
October 26th, 2006 at 7:18 pm
Scott says:
I have to agree with DEGUSTIBUS, and perhaps it’s because I’m running a pc that’s a bit old:
a 1.3 Tualatin on Intel 815E-based mainboard, upgraded to max RAM capacity (512 Mb) and 128 Mb AGP card, that originally came with XP installed.
Win2000 Pro runs far more efficiently for me on this PC, very rarely ever having a problem. XP was a resource hog, even if shutting down unnecessary services via service.msc and msconfig settings.
Unfortunately I’m running into limitations already… as an example, the very latest version of MSN Messenger requires you to have XP. But my installed version (7.0) still works fine.
October 26th, 2006 at 11:53 pm
John Corliss says:
If Millennium Edition was a stable as XP and could handle the same maximum file size, I would still be using it. My computer is a single user computer and doesn’t need any networking stuff. I also don’t like the way things like Messenger, WMP and IE are shoved down my throat. This is just skimming the surface of my complaints about XP.
October 27th, 2006 at 5:14 am
Andy Atkinson says:
Windows 2000 has so many patches its sickening to install without a slipstreamed disk. I’ll bet the main reason you are “sticking” with Windows 2000 is because you have an incredibly old installation, or don’t have a legit copy of XP, otherwise I can’t see any reason one would install 2000 now. There are plently of things that annoy me about XP too. Here are the fixed to 6 things that annoy me about XP.
October 27th, 2006 at 6:17 am
Scott says:
Hi Andy,
I could agree with you if the situation involved a new PC and you want the latest version of anything.
But for an “occasional” gamer whose software system requirements are met with his current hardware, I don’t see why XP would be any advantage. My current 2 year old installation works fine.
Even if I were to reinstall Windows 2000 Pro yet again, the process of updating would not be “sickening” as you stated…all that’s required is broadband (which I have) and part of an afternoon.
October 27th, 2006 at 2:16 pm
Dave Barnes says:
I have a legitimate license for Windows 2000 Pro.
I have it installed on my 2.9-year old Athlon whitebox.
I have it installed in a Parallels VM under Mac OSX. And, yes that is legitimate as my license states: “2 copies”.
Why pay for XP when all it will get me is eye candy (annoying eye candy at that)?
I am considering upgrading my Parallels VM to XP only so I can run IE 7 which I will soon need for testing websites that I build. Otherwise, I would stay with IE 6 and 2000 “forever”.
,dave
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