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To: fyodor_ who wrote (29946)	3/1/2001 6:44:37 AM
From: Bill Jackson	Respond to of 275872

fyo, I tried win2K but too many of my programs and hardware did not like it. When it worked it was fine, but when it balked I wanted to shoot it. That is what the industry sees and they will not migrate en masse until it is bug free. Now will it be freed of bugs or supplanted? Will the program that supplants it be bug free? or will it bring a new crop of bugs, thus stalling it yet again. No-one in IS wants to use any MSFT product until it has been out for a year or so. Bill

To: fyodor_ who wrote (29946)	3/1/2001 7:56:58 AM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Fyo, I've got WinME preloaded on my computer. Microsoft released it before there was any driver support, and I have wasted huge amounts of time bringing up standard peripherals on it. The only advantage I see to WinME is that their networking installation software works a little better (provided you own one of three network cards which has drivers available.) Basically, it looks like Microsoft is rushing products to market, and not coordinating releases with hardware vendors. For some reason, the box makers agreed to preload WinME on their systems, and the end user experience is almost as bad as bringing up Linux. Scumbria