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To: heatsinker2 who wrote (48893)	7/24/2001 8:21:03 PM
From: Milan Shah	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Could you provide some details on what makes it so much better? I am quite leery of all Msoft releases. ME, for example, is a very small improvement over Win 98, and Win 98 was a rather small improvement over the latter versions of Win 95. So please, tell us more. If you are looking for improvements between Win 9x and Win XP, you don't have to look too deep - Win XP is based on Windows NT/2000 code base, whereas Win 9x is based on the crufty DOS+Windows base. If you do any kind of multitasking, even just between a browser window lurking on SI and a spreadsheet related to your work ;-), you'll notice a huge improvement right away. This, of course, is just the tip of the iceberg - all the reasons why Windows NT is soooo much better than Win 9x apply in spades to Win 9x vs Win XP - like much more robust device drivers (because the kernel environment is so much more robust), immensely smoother multitasking (pre-emptive vs non-preemptive), much more robust support for peripherals (all the weird combinations actually work!), real (but easy to use and transparent) security, etc. Now, upgrading from Windows 2000 to Windows XP is a bit of a harder sell - there isn't much that is technologically fundamental in improvements IMHO; they have tried to make it "more user friendly", which of course just means that they are making it friendlier to the folks they pissed off last time, and in so doing, they are going to piss off the people they made happy last time. Milan

To: heatsinker2 who wrote (48893)	7/24/2001 9:08:47 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Heat, XP runs software considerably faster than ME. It is infinitely more stable, and it requires less memory. Two other great features are drag and drop writes to CD-RW, and remote logins to other XP/NT machines. One more thing is that XP supports true quick editing in Cygwin (DOS) windows, whereas ME required a few extra steps to cut and paste. A few things I don't like about XP are a crippled Wordpad version and lack of driver support. I'm keeping one ME machine for things that don't work right under XP Beta.