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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: rudedog who wrote (62191)	10/26/2001 10:37:09 AM
From: miraje	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Hi rudedog, I've been debating on whether or not to install XP on my system. It's an almost 3 year old HP Pavilion, with a 450 MHz PII, 128 MB of SDRAM, and a 10.2 GB hard drive running under Win98SE. I've been hesitant to pull the trigger on upgrading, not for the cost, but for the possibility of hardware, software, and/or peripherals not working properly. Sounds like the hardware side of your systems gave you no problems, but how about software? Did any of your programs go out to lunch under XP? I'm not a techie, but not a total bonehead either. <gg> Would you attempt the upgrade if you were me? Thanks, JB

To: rudedog who wrote (62191)	10/26/2001 12:55:03 PM
From: Dave	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Win98 - it added 32 bit FAT, better resource management, better networking, the ability to support NAT for home networking and internet sharing, and a bunch of other new stuff. But how many of those things weren't already available as free downloads? The only thing I know about that was in Win98 but not available as a patch to Win95 was USB support, but that's largely irrelevant to the upgrade question because for the most part only new machines needed USB, and new machines shipped with Win98, so you didn't need to upgrade for that. True, it was in many ways a bug fix on Win95... but I can't see anything that was related to Netscape. IE was "integrated" into Win98, and was intentionally made harder to uninstall. I believe this is all in the court transcripts. I just plugged in the CD, answered a few questions (way fewer than in past installations), and came back a half hour later to a fully functional XP machine. Out of curiosity, what kinds of scanner, printer, video capture card, and other peripherals did you have installed? Did the products of Microsoft's competitors still work flawlessly (AOL Instant Messenger, Netscape Communicator, Opera, QuickTime, etc.)? By the way I agree with you about memory: it's so stinking cheap now that if you want to upgrade your computer, it makes much more sense to spend $100 to get another 512 MB than to subject yourself to an XP upgrade. Dave