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

To: _scar_face_ who wrote (63874)	12/24/2001 4:27:27 AM
From: dybdahl	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

I talked to some not so experienced people yesterday that weren't too impressed with Windows XP. They couldn't make Corel Draw run on it, so they had to install in on their Windows 98 PC instead. They also had some hardware driver problems and still use their old Windows 98 PC more than their new Windows XP PC, simply because it works better for them. An experienced guy has had problems with XP activation because he switched too much hardware. Known and trusted reliability is very subjective. Personally I find Windows very unreliable, and when I look around, the downtime for Windows desktop PCs is much greater than for Linux desktop PCs, which have almost no downtime. If you depend on your PC to do banking stuff, e-mail and surfing, this matters a lot. When I used Windows, I switched to use Yahoo mail and paid them to remove advertisements etc. Simply because then I could switch PCs if my primary PC stopped working or would be down because of virus, hacking, driver/hardware problems, Windows cancer (dll hell etc.), FAT filesystem crash or something else. After switching to Linux I use a desktop program for e-mail again. Since october 1999, which is the approximate date for my original installation, the only downtimes for my Linux desktop computer has been hardware upgrades and distribution upgrades - but always less than 2 hours at a time. You can be lucky to have this reliability on a Windows desktop, but it's surely not that usual.